Camel Cam

Published January 21, 2024

Petra, Jordan

This is an excerpt from a larger list, where I give various activities a Sober Fun rating of 1-10. Entries from this list are scattered throughout my website, or you can find that complete list HERE.

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CAMELBACK RIDING: 5

You'd think the exoticness factor would score extra points here, but this is just a sand horse. It's twice as tall and twice as uncomfortable, so unless you ride a camel regularly, you are going to want off this thing pretty darn quick. I'm decreasing this to a 2 hour max, but still giving it a Sober Fun rating of 5. Because you're probably somewhere really neat, if you're on a camel.

Fun Fact: The Universe knows how important cool photos are to me, so the second I start feeling too smug about myself, and imagining I'm Lawrence of Arabia or whatnot, it will often throw a wrench into my plans. Such as, giving Maria a smart, refined, camel that took lovely photos... and giving me an absurd camel with a jacked-up grill, that insisted on making retarded, upstaging faces every time it saw a camera. I'm at Petra, one of the 7 Wonders of the World, and I only have one single photo where my camel wasn't doing some version of this:

More than once, I became hot and tired and could have easily been talked in to renting another camel. But every single time, the wranglers would painstakingly go and get THIS same camel again. As far as they were concerned, this was the camel for me, this was my camel. Thanks guys.
More than once, I became hot and tired and could have easily been talked in to renting another camel. But every single time, the wranglers would painstakingly go and get THIS same camel again. As far as they were concerned, this was the camel for me, this was my camel. Thanks guys.