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To escape the coming heat, escape Austin 4
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Still others will aim out to sea during summertime.
Composer Dan Welcher will sail Penobscot Bay in Maine. Dr. Russell D. Briggs and Julie Ermis Briggs will cool off near the glaciers — while they last — on an Alaskan cruise. Architect Juan Miró and his business manager/wife Rosa Rivera will take in Japan first, then cruise the Mediterranean (Monaco, Florence, Rome, Naples and Tunis) to celebrate Miró’s parent’s 50th anniversary.
Europe remains a traditional lure. Business strategic planner Debbie Johnson will wander around Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France in June. “We’re picking up a new car, visiting some friends, hiking in the Cinque Terra, etc,” Johnson says. “Should be a lot nicer weather over there about then!”
Southwestern University professor Rick Roemer will spend the summer in Bulgaria, Austria, Greece and Turkey, grappling with theater and playing tournament tennis. Ballet Austin’s Stephen Mills and partner Brent Hasty will dip into Venice for the Biennale art festival in June, and then on to the Montepellier Dance Festival in France. (Believe me, Venice can turn downright arctic in the summer. Depends on the direction of the wind.)
Actress Sandy Walper and her husband John will tour Ireland and Scotland. She concludes: “I, for one, will probably come home with some absolutely incoherent attempt at a Celtic/Texas/Gaelic accent.”
Will all these places stay cool? Well, one can pretty much lay money on it: Not as hot as Texas.
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