WAKING UP TO ELEPHANTS IN THE FRONT YARD

Imagine pulling up the blinds in a little stone hut to see elephants just outside your door. That's one of the joys of staying on the game reserve while on safari in Africa. Aquila Game Reserve is where  Tabs & I went to do a little lion taming and live like National Geographic photogs. All you could hear were the "camera shutter" sounds of all the on-lookers in the truck for the driving portion of the safari. You would have thought Lindsey Lohan was hiding in the bush or something...Some of these people practically had the Hubble Telescope lens on their camera meanwhile I'm busting out with my cell phone camera. (Hey, whatever works). We saw elephants, rhinos, lions, elk, zebras. hippos, and ants... LOTS of ants. It wasn't the large animals which kept our butts on the truck yet the millions of red fire ants all over the ground for miles. That's guarantee for of security for trespassers. The outdoor shower to our little hut was a bit more ready for "YouTube" than I would have liked so I showered with my bathing suit on just in case I decide to run for office one day & my Adam & Eve picture suddenly surfaces. The next day I went out on 4-wheelers aka quads or ATV's. THAT WAS SOOOO MUCH FUN. We were able to go to many different places within the reserve that we could not go to in the truck. Riding full speed on the dunes and rocks in the middle God country Africa was another experience set in my memory hard drive. I don't have my thesaurus so I can't even think of words to describe this. Please everyone do this once in your life. There are also wine vineyards around the reserve so you can easily spend a few days just in that area. It was nice to have a real bed and bathroom (even is the shower was outside) for one night...then back to the Volunteer house (bunk beds) and some polite drinking among the group.

More to come!