http://mountaintopcampground.com/uniquely-pittsburgh/ June 26th. Well, we came to Addo for the Elephants, and we got them: they are everywhere here. Our guide pulled up right next to an elephant feeding beside the road, and we just sat there watching him, only fifteen feet away. He continued grazing undisturbed by our presence; I don’t know if I’ll ever […]
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In the Peaceable Kingdom.
16-Jul-15Beautiful Woman In Lion Country.
14-Jul-15buy gabapentin online forum June 26th. We came down to the water-hole after lunch at the lodge to look at the animals – the lodge is sited on a ridge above this water-hole – and found ourselves surrounded by birds, begging for a bit of our orange (I took a video of one particularly vocal cara avis, but my […]
Oliphants Stop the Traffic.
14-Jul-15June 26th. We are now awaiting our “game drive,” as it is called, when a safari guide will take us out into the veld animalia ad videnda; we spent the morning doing a game drive of our own, as the South African national parks allow people to go out into the wild themselves. Our resolution […]
Monkeys.
14-Jul-15June 26th. When we woke up this morning there were monkeys in the trees playing by our car, and playing seems to be the right word: they seemed to live perfectly unserious lives, wrestling with each other, pulling each other’s tails, running up the trees and then back down them again as if energy were […]
On Safari.
13-Jul-15It’s hard to hide behind a tree if you’re an elephant.
Under the Stars at Addo.
13-Jul-15June 25th. We drove in the declining evening from Jeffrey’s Bay to Addo Elephant National Park, getting a bit lost in the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, but eventually arriving. And now we are here, at the main camp, staying in a plastered mud hut with a thatched roof and nice detailing – safari chic, they […]
The Loose-End Men of New Orleans.
13-Jun-14Johnny had turned his place into a kind of refuge for the various flotsam and jetsam that floated down the river, of the male kind; I had been one of Johnny’s Boys for awhile, when I came down to New Orleans after my divorce. I had money in my bank account and had spent six […]