A partially true story about a Safari encounter I had

The Lion in Summer It's 5 AM, and I'm lying on the Kalahari Desert, face to face with a male lion. He's 20 feet or so away, and I know, deep down inside, that he could cover that distance in less than 2 seconds. Nothing happens for a long time. Then, he moves. It's two weeks earlier, and I'm gathering a backpack with a mix of very warm and very cool clothes, and stepping onto the Outback X3, …showed first 75 words of 1179 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1179 total…onto the roof, and when he noticed that I wasn't there, he told my parents. They turned around, and came barreling back through the bush, finding me face to face with a pack of lions. I had twisted my ankle, and I couldn't walk for a few days, but aside from that I was fine. 3 days later, we were back at our home, and I had a story to tell that I would never forget.