TrailBooth – Letters from the Lowveld
Letters from the Lowveld – stories of the Booth Family's move from KZN to Kampersrus, Limpopo.
In August I laughed at my brother-in-law when he realised he would be in the middle of Kruger, without comms, for the World Cup final. Then I accepted a booking to walk Pafuri over the same weekend. When I realised, I had a moment of regret, thinking what if the Boks make the final? I…
People have become disconnected from nature- that’s a fact that is undisputable, it shows every day, everywhere, from the street corner to social media. The number of people in the world who remain connected to nature is fewer and fewer, and in general they live with very little monetary wealth. It’s what keeps them connected,…
So I have written about how KZNTR started in the first piece on this part of the blog, and now I am going to write about how it ended, for me. Then I’ll spend time in the future filling in between the start at the end, there are plenty of stories that took place between…
The Kruger Trail. A dream. The ultimate reality. Something that piqued our curiosity when paging through the SanParks Newspaper back in 2018, convinced us to use our Rainy Day fund and “see what happens” as we put our names down for the Kruger Trail (TKT) Auction, became a 5year adventure for Lauren & I. Together…
Dear Family and Friends Much has happened since I last wrote a letter describing the trials and tribulations of our move to the Lowveld as a family, some exciting and beautiful, others sad and horrific. Life has not been without its contrasts and ironies and I’m not quite sure where to kick this letter off…….
Letters from the Lowveld 5 Sport is everything to a lot of people around the world, and it’s no different in the Lowveld. When we arrived in Kampersrus in January, it was a week before school started for Ben and Charlie. The right amount of time to find our feet without experiencing the anxiety of…
I get asked how KZN Trail Running started, what was the first thought…. or instigator….it’s not a straight forward story, it wasn’t just an idea that came to me…… So of course when I say we have Julius Malema to thank, people laugh thinking that it’s just a joke. But truly something he did played…
After Lauren’s letter two weeks ago I have realised I am not the funny one in the relationship, you’ll have to wait for her to write again (we will alternate and have agreed that roughly every two weeks one of us will produce the next “Letter”) to get the laugh. I’m going to be more…
I woke in my tent at @siyafundawildlife at 1am yesterday morning and already in my mind was that I had left my boots outside and would a hyena come along and drag them off into the bush for a good chew. So I got up, walked across the camp to collect them and happy to…
“Tomorrow will be exactly two months since we packed our belongings into 2 trailers and 3 cars and left the green and wet hills of KZN for the mountainside town of Kampersrus overlooking the Lowveld around Hoedspruit. We could already write essays about the experiences we have had, some fun and adventurous, others not so…