Hard to be a good navigator in the vast wasteland of a desert. Everything looks the same.
But, that was not the point of the story in the Bible.
The premise was that the 'tribes' were 'lost' because they kept walking in a circle around the same mountain.
They were 'stiff-necked'. This meant they didn't turn their head to notice that the same mountain was over the same shoulder all the time. The point was that they were STUBBORN and refused to listen. They didn't even want to listen to Moses. They blamed HIM for their own stubborn ignorance.
Stiff necked? Bent on going one direction aimlessly?
Sounds like NASCAR.
(Ducks)
well,they were all pretty dumb then.i have been in every desert in the us.long haul trucker and you are right about everything looking the same but one can follow the sun.but thats just me i never read the mosses story.