The night skies in Arizona are spectacular. I had to pull off the road one night outside Needles just to look at the stars. It’s incredible what is unviewable in most of the US at night.
Oh that was you? ;)
We went camping one December in the Mojave Desert near the California/Nevada border. It got down to about 15 degrees that night; we were staying in a canvas-topped tent with a cement floor and a pot-bellied stove for heat.
Oh, did I tell you we'd forgotten to feed the stove before going to bed? :-)
Round about 2:00-3:00, I volunteered to go outside to get more wood. Dayum! The desert's cold in the winter! Anyway, the sky was awesome.
One thing that was interesting, though. Looking to the northeast, in that beautiful night scene, I could still see the lights of the Nevada casinos; couldn't hear the slot machines, though [chuckle].