We're all over the road with this. We might start out with a seasonal rental in the catskills. Ski Plattekill and Belleayre. Me and my daughters are kind of pushing for S.Vt and ski Magic, Broomly, Stratton... but it's another 1-1/2 up the road. And who knows if the mountains will evn be open all winter.
On top of this, we 'won' a ski chalet in the French Alps at a charity auction last fall. We were supposed to be skiing there this X-mas, but doesn't seem likely we will be making that trip. So the money we were gonna spend on that trip might fund the rental plan.
Then, if we use it a ton, and find it all manageable, try to figure out a way to afford our own place somewhere.
That's kind of the plan...we'll see how it shakes out.
Where out west? JH again? Where in VT would you go? You don't go north much, do you?