Running Vacation?

It's November and it's time to start thinking about next year's vacation. I think that I want my vacation to revolve around trail running. But where to go?

I have looked at several websites that offer running vacations. There are a few that really interest me. One is in Iceland and it covers approximately 70 miles in 5 or 6 days. You sleep each night in a hut in a sleeping bag and all the food is covered. Sherpas of some sort carry your luggage from one place to the next so all you have to do is run.

There's  a similar vacation in Italy in the Dolomites. I looked at this one and it scares the living heebie jeebies out of me simply because it's in some seriously mountainous terrain. It looks beautiful, but I don't know if I can handle the heights.

There was another one in Iceland that was actually a staged race that covers about 60 miles in 5 days. You stay at hotels each night and the food is covered, but it's a race. Do I really want to race?

Then I thought about doing a staged race over three days in the Rockies in August of next year. Its called the Trans Rockies and they have a 6 day version and a 3 day version. I would not even attempt the six-day version and to be honest the 3 day version seems pretty intense as well. It covers about 60 miles in 3 days which is 20 miles per day. That's a lot and since I come from Florida, which is totally flat, this would be super-extra-mighty challenging.

And finally I thought about designing my own running vacation going somewhere in the Smoky Mountains, maybe traveling from one trail to another and staying in my camper each night. Maybe I could find a race along the way, but the whole vacation wouldn't be about a race. It would just be about running in pretty places.

So I have a little bit of time to decide, but the staged races tend to fill up very quickly so I would have to say yay or nay to those soon. What to do?