What about the Pula Traveller

The sun has set in a burst of colours, the evening cools and slowly the heat of summer becomes bearable again.

There is lightning displaying mightily out across the river and the sounds of the evening slowly peak into a crescendo of delightful gratification. It is the end of another day, it was a glorious day.

With all this going on around me one would expect me to be in a state of peace and comfort and gratitude. It would therefore surprise, well, any one really that this is not really the case. I am, this evening, in Maun and on my way to more exotic destinations. I am a nature lover and I am a Pula traveller. Let me explain this briefly before going on. I spend local currency; I earn local currency and where possible I live in local currency. For anyone interested this statement of being a "Pula Traveller" could include anyone who is not rolling in big foreign bills with exciting names like US Dollars, British Pounds and Euros. Not that I have anything against these big names, I would love to be in a position to be more familiar with them, but alas. This is not the case. I am just me, just local, just Motswana.

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