“Desert” is not an innocent term…unlike other landforms there is, inbuilt in its very name, a sense of foreboding.
-Desert: Nature and Culture, Roslynn Haynes
The desert’s sense of foreboding depends entirely on where you sit on the Darb. Day 1 or Day 40? Day 1, Hell yes, I felt it. Day 40, Hell no, Give me another Arba’īn, Forty.