“Ventura Highway” is the only tune of theirs I’ll ever listen to by choice. I’ve heard wind ornaments on people’s porches that have more interesting singing voices. :’)
I used to work with an old WWII veteran; one day we were having a rare conversation and somehow got on the topic (or at least, he did) of his service (formerly I’m not sure I’d known about it). He served in North Africa, perhaps under Patton? Anyway, he said they got on a train in Morocco or somewhere, and chugged across the desert to the staging area. The trip took literally three weeks, nothing to see, little to do. :’)
Much the same could be said of most parts of the Middle East deserts. Not much to see or do in those deserts. I would say the American Southwest has more interesting deserts.