Along the coast of the Gulf of Sirte, between Misratah and Benghazi, rainfall is rather less, so that the desert reaches the coast.

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Since launching his company in 2002, Smith has trekked to places like Pingliang, China, 1, 000 miles from the coast and bordering a desert that stretches north into Mongolia.

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You'd imagine that man could never quite stamp his mark on the vast desert of the Skeleton Coast.

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There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.

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Borrego Ranch started life in 1937 as the Desert Lodge and quickly became a winter playground for wealthy coast-dwellers.

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The warm, moisture-laden air brings heavy rainfall and flash flooding to Peru's northern coast, killing villagers and causing havoc to the fragile soils of the desert and of the arid Andean foothills.

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