This is the first of a 9-part On the Road series from Botswana. We are planning on 3 sets of 3 submissions per week, with this set in July, another in August, and the final set in September.
Lee got his just-submitted post up on Tuesday because at that point only the 2 new submissions were functional. And what a truly gorgeous set of photos they were!
After the merge, all the images were missing from all of the pending OTR submissions! I spent 10 hours on Monday and Tuesday sorting through OTR and piecing all the individual images into each of the 15 pending OTR submissions, so I can now report that we are back in business with On the Road, with all 15 of the pending submissions complete once again! And the form is working just fine, so new submissions should be fine, too.
But please, hold off on submitting anything new just yet. At least 25 of our previous on the Road posts are missing comments, all their images, or both. So let’s hold off on new submissions to OTR while the developers hopefully come up with a clever plan to get those back.
But if you have a submission (virtually) ready, please send me an email with a subject line that includes your nym, OTR or On the Road, and the subject matter. I’ll use that to hold your place in the queue while you continue to hold off submitting until the issues are resolved.
And now, back to Kabecoo and some amazing photos from Botswana!
Kabecoo
I am a long time lurker here and a rare commenter, usually about birds. But I never miss any of the On The Road posts. When our daughter invited us to accompany her for a portion of her trip to southern Africa, we were skeptical, particularly as we would be camping in various parts of the Kalahari. As the trip progressed I realized that among my 1500 photos would be ten or twelve that might be interesting to others.
After getting over jet lag we headed north to Maun, Botswana, where our guide for the next 17 days assured us that he would keep us safe while exploring various parks, game reserves and the Okavango Delta. We first spent four days in the central Kalahari. Long days: we woke before dawn to look for game, collapsing after a sunset dinner, in our tents before the nighttime predators came calling.
Our first afternoon took us into the Makgadikgadi National Park, where we realized just how close we would be to the magnificent animals that populate Botswana. Within two minutes of entering the park via pontoon bridge, a small herd of elephants drifted in front of us. Over the next two weeks we would experience this many times; it never got old.
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