Really?
Greatly surprised as we were when we opened the door to our cabin at Khowarib Lodge, no actual pachyderm had gazumped us.
Comfortably “resting” atop our bed, with cushion at its back, was an example of the not-so-ancient Namibian hotelkeepers’ art of towel origami.
However, some of our literally-true experiences in Namibia were as hard to believe as any fiction.
As some early 2023 posts will eventually show/explain, we once did have an actual wild, desert-adapted elephant right at “our” front door, I really did let a cat into the bag, and we experienced rain – with double-rainbow – in the Namib Desert.
And a bona fide wild leopard – at the time, in clear view, sitting closer to us than a classroom teacher is to most of his or her students – “checked us out”, cursorily, then stretched out on the sand, and promptly went to sleep.
#18 in this series will also be appropriate to this “silly season”.
#19 will resume normal “truth and beauty” service; its location is, I think, one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful places on “our” planet.
Brilliant tales! Even better because they’re true.