My wife and I have never been very good about taking vacations.  I’ve always been somewhat jealous of my mother and her husband who block out a week each fall to get away to the mountains and spend their time doing absolutely nothing at all.  To some extent, I think that I would be bored just relaxing for a week, but at times, I think maybe I just haven’t discovered it yet. The closest that Jen and I have come to taking a...