timeshare in 2001, when the price was right (after 9/11/01). We have also invested in Hilton's Nevada and Orlando properties.
http://www.hgvc.com My husband is a real travel junkie -- he had thousands of frequent flier mileage points and we started with limited travel in 1980, several years after we married. The five children we raised are now grown and married, and we're officially retired and going great guns! Hawaii is just one of the beautiful places we've been to recently -- we both worked for more than fifty years, so as much as anyone, we feel we've earned it.
Hope it happens for you, too.
In peace,
Radio_Lady in Oregon