The Washington Post, October 22nd, 1989
The idea of owning a pair of noisome, noisy camels never much occurred to me, not even after my wife, Chloe, stumbled headlong over debris in a cobbled back street in Bikaner, India, nearly impaling herself on the directional arrow of a "Camel Market" sign that was angled dangerously across the path. It is true that we had come to this city on the edge of India's Thar Desert eager for the adventures of a camel safari. For three days now, however, our inquiries had been stonewalled at each turn with the explanation that the "seasonal" caravans were not operating because of the intense desert he...
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