mmm... Beef

Since I just got back from Bots last night and I've already been asked by one of my three faithful readers how the trip was, I feel compelled to share.
It was good! It was quiet and provincial with nice, friendly people and had really good beef. Botswana is famous for it's beef. It's free-range, grass-fed, tender, juicy and flavorful. Reminds me of me - except for the grass-fed part.
There was a bump or two, however. I had driven up (the better to see the countryside and the better to get around once I got there) and, oddly enough, somebody busted out one of my back windows on my last day there. I say "oddly" because that sort of stuff is expected here in the big, bad, crime-ridden Republic of South Africa, but not in quiet, sleepy, provicial Gaborone. But it wasn't that big a deal either. They broke one of the little back windows and they didn't even take anything. Not that there was much to take. It happened right in front of the hotel and I had taken all my stuff up to the room. All that was in the car was a couple Economists and a copy of Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of The Human. I guess they weren't Shakespeare fans.
But, no, this did not ruin the trip or sour me on Botswana. It's is a nice place and I'll go back as soon as they let me. It did kind of limit my running around though. Kind of hard to go and park anywhere with a wide open car. I really didn't want this whole post to be about a broken window but I do sometimes ramble.
On the way up I saw ostrich, kudu and baboons and on the way back I saw a nice big hornbill.