Botswana at Last!

We've been moving quickly from city to city lately, so I haven't had much time for posting...and an unfortunate incident at the bus station in Johannesburg (I knew that city was trouble) has left me relying on Justin for all my funds for the moment, so paying for internet is a bit of a luxury until things get straightened out. A (very) quick update, though:

-We left Wilderness and ended up at an out-of-the way beach called Buffalo Bay, transported in a truck by a jovial rascist in pajama pants

-We squished into a two-door hatchback with all our backpacks and three French guys and visited a rainy Rastafarian community outside Knysna, South Africa, where we were lectured on Hash: The Plant of Today

-We froze on an all-night bus ride to a place called Grahamstown, found they had no coffee in the whole damn place, and so immediately left

-We took another all-night bus, then an all-day bus, to reach the mystical mountain range called The Drakensburg, aka Coldest Place on Earth

-We hiked one of southern Africa's highest peaks, located in the tiny nation of Lesotho

-We biked 40k to buy six eggs and some candied popcorn, though the latter turned out to be so gross that Justin forcibly gave it to a stranger on the street

-We spent 12 hours in Johannesburg, where we watched Cote d'Ivoire fall to Brazil and slept in a hovel that smelled of rot and dirty cat litter

-We rented a stick shift and then both learned how to drive it (Justin first, on the way out of the parking lot)

-We drove the rental car to Kruger National Park, where I took my turn at the wheel, stalling and lurching across hundreds of miles of pristine grassland in full view of buffalo, rhinos, cheetahs, and some surprisingly menacing elephants

-We went back to Joburg to catch a bus to Botswana, but ended up staying for two days as an enterprising thief handily dispossessed me of everything but my clothes at the bus station

-48 hours and one loooong visit to the American embassy later, WE'RE IN BOTSWANA!!