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On our way home, we drove straight through the Imperial San Dunes Recreation Area.
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It just happened to be the second-busiest weekend for off-road riding. One guy said nearly 200,000 people were in the area riding their dune buggies, four-wheelers, motorbikes and big trucks across the sand.
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Farther north we encountered this
stretch of highway and railroad track . . .
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Where we found this rock
graffiti.
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There were hundreds of messages laid out along the raised railroad bed as far as we could see in both directions.
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We finally returned to civilization (or something close to it) at a place called Vidal Junction, which marks the intersection of two desert highways.
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