We're just contemplating packing them up for the warm season. Locally, we have an alpine facility with a good ski lift and lodge. The cross country folks enjoy 25 miles of groomed trails and it's only 10 miles away from downtown Pocatello. Craters of the Moon National Monument allows cross country skis and snow mobiles during the winter. It's a fine area to putter around on a motorcycle in the summer. There is plenty of parking at the designated exhibits. I enjoy climbing into Boy Scout cave in the summer. It's well over +100F on top of the lava, yet the cave has ice on the floor. Digital pictures really bring out the colors of the minerals in the cave walls.
I left San Diego in Dec 2000. Many people consider that a "resort" town. Frankly, I find southeast Idaho has the kind of "vacation" environment that suits my interests. Mountains, rivers, lakes and sand dunes. It's nice to live in the middle of that kind of environment.
BTW, where is "home"?
The ultimate ancestral homeland was someplace with a lot of glaciers and marine mammals!