TrailBooth – Letters from the Lowveld
Letters from the Lowveld – stories of the Booth Family's move from KZN to Kampersrus, Limpopo.
When we moved to the Lowveld, the plan was simple and singular.To guide.And only to guide. Life, of course, had its own ideas. Somewhere along the way I learned something important about how I move through this world and how I make decisions when things are no longer clear or neatly defined. I follow energy….
Our approach to Leg 2 was different from Leg 1 because we knew some of what it was all about. We adjusted our equipment slightly, and I chose a pair of white desert gaiters to completely cover my shoes and prevent anything coming in through the mesh of my trail running shoes. They stood out…
The final day of leg one is 18km, but you have to walk it by lunchtime to allow enough time to fetch your vehicles that were left 6 days earlier at Pafuri. Those 6 days felt like a lifetime, the start of the journey, just 5 nights previously was so distant, and a shift had…
The last full day of this leg, what an introduction it had been. We had not seen a lot of game, but we had been introduced to a way of being in the bush that we had never experienced before. Something had enveloped me and us that we had never felt before. A mental shift…
It’s been a little while since I have written an entry in this diary, so I will aim to be consistent and tell, the story of my Kruger Trail experience. Day 4 of leg 1 was the first day we arrived at camp early enough to explore our surroundings a little bit. This would prove…
15 May 2019 It was on this day that we saw and felt another side to the Kruger. Deep in the hills of the eastern Soutpansberg, we awoke in our riverbed campsite, had a coffee, packed our backpacks and headed south along the drainage lines winding our way through granite domes. It was still quite…
14 May 2019 Overnight we heard animals come and go from the trickle of water we had collected ours from. The buffalo were the most obvious with their hooves clancking over the rocks when a herd moved in or out.It was my birthday and Michelle produced a cake for me out of her tiny bag….
13 May 2019 I’ve read a few accounts recently and have really enjoyed reading the stories and experiences of The Kruger Trail. So I will share mine, day by day over a period of time. That’s if I can remember each day, they seem to blur, but I hope the photo albums we collected will…
Chasing the Sun 2 is incredibly inspiring, especially for South Africans and even more so for rugby fans. But you don’t even have to like rugby to be moved by the fairy tale story of the Springboks that kicked off at the 1995 Rugby World Cup. It’s a complete wonder we have not hosted the…
Never in my life have I felt so close to the edge for so long. The buffer zone enabled by periods of stability has gone, and the edge we imagine we might tip over seems to linger ominously close by.