Perhaps they were also engaged in a routine debate. Will it- or won’t it- get here? For travelling in these corners of the Sahara is a risky adventure, an unending lottery, perpetual uncertainty. Along these roadless expanses filled with crevices, depressions, sinkholes, protruding boulders, sand dunes and rocky mounds, loose stones and fields of slippery gravel, a vehicle advances at a snail’s pace…
-The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Kapuscinski rode a train across Mauritania and a bus across Eritrea and lorries across many countries in between, but to the best of my knowledge he never rode a camel anywhere. If he had, he’d have known that there is never a debate, Will it or Won’t it? Of course it will get here, and of course it will get you there. You are not riding a four wheeler but rather a four footer. Irkab, Mount, Itla’, Rise, and Imshi, Walk.