I have been to AZ in the winter month... March to be exact. And yeah, it was fuckin awesome minus leaving 20 below and walking off the plane in a hoodie and realizing it was 90 degrees in AZ. I loved AZ, I did, but there's no water there. I dunno if I can do the desert like that. I need my lakes, my water. We went to Bartlett Lake, that was really pretty, but too much travel just to see one lake and it was a man made lake, kinda fake if ya know what I'm sayin'. Its weird. And no ice fishing, no way, I could never do it! It is a nice vacationing spot, but I honestly could never live there.