@realjohnboy,
By the way, many years ago when I was a bit of lad I hitchhiked for a few years. I ended up doing Africa from Cairo to Capetown. I was in Botswana, right above South Africa, and hitched through a huge game park which had a campground on the eastern and western edges plus one in the middle. Each afternoon near sundown a horn would sound and you needed to get inside before the gates closed on the camp behind the tall fences. The night belonged to the predators.
The wife of a ranger thought it amusing, I guess, that there was this idiot hitching through the park. She invited me to join her and her children on a little ride after the gates had officially closed down to a watering hole. We watched from the Landrover as a few lions came down. And then some giraffe. A couple of the latter got into a fight. It was an absolutely jaw dropping thing to witness.
