Hat tip to A New Life in Costa Rica.

I don't usually think about retirement. I try to live in the here and now. Because when push comes to shove, this moment is all I've got.

But every now and then I indulge myself. Particularly when I grow weary of the desert. We will be heading to Costa Rica, I suspect, in a little over a decade. If you'd have told me a few years ago that I'd be considering life as an expat, I'd have laughed. But there it is. Aren't things surprising?

I love their little horses. I love how green it is.

Think my percheron horse Toby will like it? Do I put him on a plane? Or a boat? How does that work?

OK, now I will rein myself back to the present, where I fully intend to live. But every now and then ...