It was the longest camel journey I had ever made…I was convinced that the camel is not only the ship but also the hardship of the desert.
-Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country
It wasn’t much of a ship that delivered us to Egypt but it was better than having no ship. Try swimming up the Darb, its current, the north wind, against you day and night, the sand it blew stinging the bare skin like jellyfish, and some of the dunes like whitecaps, others like pelagic swells.