I envy your life! :D %)
Seriously, I've been a web junkie as well since I first discovered photoshop around age 12. I do web design, and get this- my dream has always been to get to a decent enough place in my web design career to move to South Africa for a while and work on the net for a living. Seriously, I'm not bullshitting you.
About 3 years ago I made friends with some South African web designers (I forget what they're company was called, they were brothers and there company name was something like 'OBox') and from briefly checking out there careers and lives in SA I was convinced I needed to do some traveling/living there. It seems like such an amazingly beautiful country, and just my climate, coming from Coastal California. I would LOVE to visit some day.
Anyways, enough about me, its just really coincidental to hear your story.
Welcome to BL, hope you stick around