beautiful views and hiking right around the location. I'm not really interested in tennis courts and so on. I'm looking for something beautiful that we'll enjoy going to and relaxing every year and making it a tradition with our kids.

That's why I'm not really interested in Park City. I never really understood the allure of that city unless you like to ski. Doesn't it seem kind of ugly to anyone else? Maybe I'm just spoiled, I just got back from Redfish Lake in Idaho, and that was gorgeous. I'm hoping for something kind of like that if it exists. Maybe Island Park is my best bet.

And yes, I know timeshares are kind of a waste of money. What I'm hoping to do is identify two or three places that we like and then look for a good deal to basically just buy it from free or nearly free from someone. And if it's pretty enough, it could be somewhere that we enjoy going every year, then I'm ok pre-paying those vacations.