When I was a child, my family took two kinds of vacations: camping (beach camping in summer and desert in winter) and one week in our timeshare. My family owned a timeshare at the San Clemente Inn that we stayed in every summer. We rarely stayed in a “regular hotel.” Even as I got older, I would still meet up with my family every year for our annual August timeshare stay. Then I got to the point where I needed to decide if I should buy a timeshare of my own. When my husband and I got married, my mom gifted us a week in one of her timeshares for…