Someone once said, “The desert is the theater of the human struggle of searching for God.” Religious or not, I think we can safely say that being in that vast expanse of uninhabited, mostly empty land touches upon something much deeper in our core being. I have always felt a strong affinity for the desert. I have always felt that it calls to me. It may be a strange thing to say, since I have not actually visited that many deserts in my life. There was the camel ride in the Sahel desert in Tunisia, one of the very…