Your plans sound a lot like mine, arti, though I've no ambitions to go to the States. Somewhere like Menorca is drawing us, once we retire.... we love North Africa too, Tunisia and Morocco, but we are rethinking that possibility at the moment in the current climate.
Well, Boxy, wherever you end up, I've no doubt that you will be received well :) I like the thought of North Africa, too, or maybe India or the Philippines.