I had become intrigued with them while reading a book by Ralph Bagnold, a British Army officer who pioneered motorized travel in the Libyan Desert ... on the sunny side of a sand dune; the shady ...

But the Algodones Dunes are also a magnet for off-road vehicles, annually drawing millions of dune buggies, motorcycles, jeeps, ATVs, and monster trucks that tear up the desert landscape ... of tires ...

Think of this as the family-friendly Burning Man of off-road, as Polaris essentially builds a city in the desert. All over the Glamis Dunes area, drivers in side-by-sides, dune buggies, and sand ...