A long drive to Kasane, Botswana

We've had two long days of driving to get from Johannesburg, South Africa to Kasane, Botswana.  It wasn't the easiest drive:

• Jet-lagged from 20+ hours of flying and an eight hour time change.
  
• Driving on the left side of the road for the first time.  I'm mostly used to it now, although I still reach for the shifter with my right hand out of habit.  And I still instinctively want to pull off the road on the right side...
  
• Some really bad roads, especially for about 200 kilometers approaching Nata, Botswana from the south.  Dusty dirt road where it was under construction, and a falling apart road where it wasn't under construction.  I'd heard the road had a lot of potholes, but didn't realize that meant the sides of the road had eroded off, leaving less than two lanes with high-speed semis going both ways.

• We tried to avoid driving at night, but after delays at the car rental and border crossings (there are six different stops to get from South Africa to Botswana), we ended up driving in the dark for an hour.  There are always goats, donkeys, and cows grazing along the highway, and they are a lot more dangerous in the dark.  We had one particularly close call, where we could see all of the brown cows next to the highway, but not the black cow walking down our lane.  Here's what a black cow on the highway looks like in the dark:

The good news is that we've started to see some amazing sights including:

• Three groups of elephants.  The first elephant was walking across the highway ahead of us, and looked straight out of Jurassic Park.  Due to Botswana internet speeds, we'll have to load an elephant picture later...

• A monkey at the entrance to Botswana.  We didn't get a picture of the monkey, but here's the entrance to Botswana (between the fifth and sixth checkpoints):

• A bunch of warthogs, including these:

• And ended the day with a sunset over the Chobe River in Botswana.

Tomorrow, we start a safari in Chobe National Park for a few days.