Over many years and many vacations, we've fallen in love with a lot of places. We've also loved vacationing places where, upon further reflection, we just couldn't live. So we decided to buy a travel trailer and a big truck and see the whole darn country (well, a lot of it!) and hopefully figure out where we want to live next. On the way, we hope to see manatees, elk, bison, jackalopes, unicorns, bigfoot, sasquatch...all of the things.

Our ideal place...

...would be on a lake but high enough off the waterline so as not to flood. The lake should be large enough to get clean winds for sailing. It shouldn't get too cold in the winter. It would be nice if it was close to skiing. This describes many places in California but there's one more constraint: It can't be California--too many wildfires, earthquakes, mudslides, and too many people with too little water.

Note: for the region definitions (Southwest, etc) we are using this guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#/media/File:BEA_regions.png There wasn't a lot of deep thought to this--other regional definitions had "aberrations" that didn't match our thinking.