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clipped from www.nytimes.com A Home in Idaho Where Water Is the Premium clipped from www.nytimes.com clipped from www.nytimes.com clipped from www.nytimes.com “We wanted to be near water and an airport,” said Jim Bolton, a retired insurance executive from the Los Angeles area, summarizing the second-home search that eventually led him, his wife, Joan, and their blended family to Hayden Lake in Idaho. “Water, no resorts and an airport with direct flights to Los Angeles,” Mrs. Bolton seconded. Her husband now describes himself as “about 90 percent retired,” but 18 years ago, when they started looking, he was ultra-employed, as vice chairman of Bolton & Company in Pasadena, one of the country’s largest privately owned insurance agencies. Convenient flights would be important. They considered aqueous destinations like the Jackson Hole area of Wyoming and Whitefish, Mont. “Our decision really evolved over time,” Mrs. Bolton said. “We’d go to places that were too touristy, and then we’d visit gorgeous country where the river runs through it but there wouldn’t be a town for miles and miles.”