Yeah, I hear ya!  When we were on our trip, everywhere we stopped we had the same conversation:  "Could you live here?"  Sometimes the answer was a quick and resounding "NO!"  That's how I felt about the desert.  It's beautiful for a little while, in the spring, when it's only about 75F, but I could never live there.  Even when it's nice, the humidity is too low for me.  I whine a lot.  LOL!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa