You have three and a half years left to live… at the most, maybe less. December 21, 2012, is 1,248 days away. Some say that will be the end of time.

What if they are right?

This sort of information is kind of like a cancer diagnosis, when the doctors announce you have a certain number of days left to live. If they are right, you’ve got to make the most of your final days on this earth. But they could be wrong… or you could beat the “terminal” cancer, like Lance Armstrong did. So you can’t just go nuts, live irresponsibly, and blow all your life savings.

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One of the highlights of growing up in Costa Rica is that most of the country is coastal. There’s a little strip of land (okay, volcanoes) in the middle, but mostly it is a Caribbean coast and a Pacific coast. Lots of pretty beaches, great surf, sun tans, and sandy toes.

It was an awesome place to grow up. As soon as school was out for any vacation, we would all head to the beaches. Back in the day, when I was a kid, this was easier said than done. They didn’t have paved access to most beaches, and certainly no convenience stores or restaurants at the more remote and beautiful spots.

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