We drove through Swaziland as a shorter way to get to Kruger National Park.  The border crossings were crazy - you show your passport in an immigration office to get out of South Africa, then you drive a few hundred yards and go into the Swaziland immigration office and get your passport stamped there.  You do the reverse coming out.  There is usually only one window open for this exercise and locals are coming and going as well.  Quite the experience.  One border agent asked that we open the camper so she could look around.  I opened the door and mentioned that we were "on holiday" and she smiled and told us to have a good time.  Go figure.
We got to drive ourselves through another game preserve on the way and we saw a huge herd of wildebeests running around like crazy, some warthogs, several giraffes, more monkey families and lots of impala.
The landscape of Swaziland is very pretty with sugar cane fields, citrus groves, and banana groves.  We saw two sugar factories on our route.  There were cows and goats in the road everywhere.  They liked to cross the roads at their leisure causing some sudden stops.
Swaziland is exceedingly poor.  The dwellings were just shacks in many cases and people everywhere were pushing wheelbarrows full of containers to carry their water from the nearest distribution point.  No running water and no indoor plumbing.  Our people should see how bad these folks have it and they might appreciate how good the USA is.  There were lots of schools and the children were dressed in uniforms.  Lots of colors which represented which school they attended.  We're not sure about the opportunities that exist for these children, but it doesn't seem very hopeful.  At least they are trying to educate the younger generation.
We had some very sad news this day; Ashley had to have her dog Banks put down.  He had not responded to his chemotherapy and had reached the end.  We'll miss him terribly.