After spending a couple of days in Gabarone Botswana, the capital, we headed north for Pandamatenga, a small farming out post. Thank God for a car with airconditioning, It was 116 F at mid day! The sky was immense the land arid yet beautiful and the road brutal. The size and frequency of pot holes was mind boggeling along with bone jarring. It was however worth every second of it once we reached the Nata village area in Magadi Kgdai region.

    At first I thought there was a large grey boulder just off the side of the road but when the boulder flapped it's ears I realized I was way wrong. What a rush!!! Within a few miles I had seen anothe 6 elephants. I stopped counting elephants when I hit 50. At one curve in the road I saw  vultures sitting in the few trees just off the road and on the ground. we slowed down to see why and there was a dead elephant or should I say the remains of an elephant. Further down the road there were giraffe, cape buffalo and lots of different gazelle.  

  Another hour later we reached the "farm Camp", home for the next six months!

Well this is my first shot at blogging........ I'll do my best however I look forward to your coments, suggestions and sarcastic remarks.

  I took a red eye out of Denver on Friday night, Feb. 6, 2015. My first lay over was in New York, a lovely 5 hours in an international termanalwith no seats. Next stop fourteen and a half hours later........... Johannesburg South Africa, another 5 hour lay over then I was offto Gaborone, Botswana. All and all it was a relativly painless trip except for the extra baggage fee I was charged by South Africa Air. The flight was booked through Jet Blue and when I went on line their web site said the extra bag fee was $50.00 as long as the bag was under 50 lbs. That sounded kinda cheap so I called Jet Blue to make sure I was not mistaken, they assured me that was the fee. Upon arriving at the air port I was informed by the counter agent that that was their fee but they did not have an agreement with South Africa Air and I would need to pay an additional $300.00, a total of $350.00 for one 43 lb. bag. Oh well......