Do you prefer the beach or the mountains?

I prefer the desert first , then the mountains. I enjoy the solitude and the variety of the flora and fauna that they are home to. The dangerous wild creatures, bear, mountain lions, jaguars, ocelots, bobcats, javelina, Gila monsters, tarantulas, coral snakes and over a dozen species of Rattlesnakes don't deter me in the least. And I have encountered all of them except the jaguar and ocelot in the wild over the years, as well as about ever other wild critter native to Arizona.