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area up against the outer wall. But that did not stop his reaching across
with his trunk and grasping the favored food for the evening. Jim could
not come out because all that was going right over his head. We waited
for dinner until the pachyderm had her fill and wandered off on her
own.
On another occasion, while we were at dinner, Kay and I asked
Lawrence if we could use his "facility" since we did not want to get a
guide to take us back to our own suite. Then we realized that another
elephant (perhaps it was our same former dinner companion) was
wandering through the open dining area heading for Lawrence's front
door.
When Lawrence would walk straight out his door, he entered the dining
area, but if he turned right he would go into a winding walled-in
corridor that led to the path outside the suites. Well, it appeared the