Twenty-Nine Palms CA is in the middle of the Mojave Desert and is blisteringly hot in the summer. Nothing but sand and yucca and Joshua trees. And the accompanying desert wild life...rattlers, sidewinders, Gila monsters, tarantulas, cactus...
I like the area, but then, I’m always going to be a child of the desert. ;o]
Never encountered a Gila monster the whole time I lived there. Thanks.