Any advice for a good retirement present scope?

Hi - my in laws are retiring and bought a house in the mountains, where they'll be away from the city light pollution. The family wants to buy them a telescope as a retirement present, and also selfishly to use when we visit now and then.

Ideally it'd be something that can find interesting objects pretty easily, but also without a stable high speed internet connection (they don't plan to have wifi, just use cell phones for emails, etc.)

Feel free to move this is and let there is some kind of new buyer FAQ already. We have a budget of $1,000 for this.