DREAMING OF ESCAPE

... So the year has hardly begun and already I'm scheming as to where my next fantasy gettaway will be. I do this where I'm bored: create a happy place. My happy place is an island with a very bright blue sky, pink lemonade ocean and white sands so fine they don't itch you. And mango trees. There are sea turtles and dolphins and lots and lots of whales, and sparrows and other benign endangered creatures. I live in a little house on stilts in the summer, and have a treehouse for the colder months. What's your happy place like? This is the best I could find in this life: