This is the next to last letter.  I can't resist ending with a bird letter.

Needless to say, we aren't in this plane, but we are in one just like it as we head back to Maun.  From there we go right away to Johannesburg and then on to Atlanta overnight and arrive back in Charleston at midday--just over 24 hours altogether, which isn't so bad if you can sleep on planes okay.  It's worth it!

You can see as you get south of the Okavango Delta in Botswana that the land is very different.  Very dry, sparce vegetation--still no roads though.  The rectangle is a boma where a small farmer probably keeps livestock.  You can see a more formally fenced area in the lower right hand part of the picture.  The waterhole in the lower left is nearly dried up.

A little closer to civilization and there is a paved road and many more small holdings with houses on them

Most of these are single family dwellings.  There are a few traditional ones, thatched rondavels, at the top center of the photo.

Close into the city you see small factories, left center, and houses with a little more to them.  The white thing in the upper left is the wing of our plane.  The green-roofed buildings in the top center are the government buildings in the middle of Maun.

You can see what I meant by Botswana seems more African still to us.

Stand by for the last letter and thank you for reading and especially for all the nice comments and questions.  I'm always ready for more, if there's anything you'd like to discuss further.  Send me a note at b.krucke@verizon.net