Wow, Mojo before I finished reading your post, I was drafting the following in my head:
Hey, Mojo, would you be willing to follow up privately with these families that are out west (and any others you know of—you might want to open a thread re a west coast retreat and see who answers the call) and put together a list of names, who lives where, a first and second choice for a weekend, and a first and second choice for a city to meet in, and get me that information via PM or email? If we have four or five families that would pre-commit to a western retreat I'd bet we could pull it off!