In true Mozambique style, our driver showed up late & we missed our prepaid bus...but no worries...he took us to another bus stop & for some reason, they let us get on! We headed to South Africa where we'd lined up a rental car and had asked the bus driver to drop us there as we were going right by...well, he forgot & apolitically dropped us about 1 km past the car rental. So with our backpacks on & pulling our luggage in a light rain...with cars & trucks whizzing past us spraying water on us...we headed back to the car rental spot. When we finally got there & were waiting to talk to the clerk, I opened the daily message I get from a bible app...it read "Stop Complaining to Each Other." Seriously Jesus has a sense of humor!! The car we'd lined up wasn't there...so they gave us one with barely any gas. The clerk told us to follow him to the gas station, he filled it up & told us to come back in two hours & our car would be ready. It was. Amen. Finally, we took off headed to the Airbnb in the bush spotting lots of animals on our way. It was a lovely setting & gorgeous accommodations.
After a bountiful breakfast prepared by our hostess, we headed to Kruger Park in our rental. There we hit the jackpot: a monstrous Daddy Rhino protecting his baby & the mom who were wallowing in a mud puddle just off the road. When Big Daddy got in the road & headed toward us in our tiny Hyundai...Rog...trembling slammed it into reverse & slowly back away. We then played chicken with Big Daddy for the next 20 minutes going back & forth until finally he & his family lumbered off into the thick bush & we sneaked by. Talk about an adrenaline high!!! We also spotted 9 giraffes in one spot, two hyenas ran right in front of us, a slew of baboons played & wrestled in the road, saw zebras, kudu, warthogs, wildebeest, monkeys, a crocodile & elephants...the youngest one danced, flapped his ears & tooted for us! We were pretty pleased with our successful we'd been as our own guides! Treated ourselves to a nice dinner overlooking Crocodile River...where we spotted another crocodile!!
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