…wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.
-Exodus 14:3
There was that one moment in the notch of the Nile’s Delgo Reach when we were truly wandering, confused about which way to go forward. This wasn’t much of a desert, criss-crossed as it was by tracks and only a mile or two from the river, and that only added to our confusion. The Darb usually pointed in one direction, north, but here lorries had turned their tires in circles, round and round in seemingly endless circles.