Tulip86, you have GC baking friends who'd be happy to send you care packages! What do you need from the southwest?
I am an awesome baker. It's fascinating because I don't particularly enjoying cooking, although I love to watch the Food Network channel. Mostly because of the personalities (especially Paula Deen and Sandra Lee, but everyone else makes me laugh, and I love the Pioneer Woman).
True confession: my guilty pleasure is cookie cookbooks, and any cookbook that has to do with baking. I love the King Arthur Flour website.
The worst part of living in the desert? Not a lot of baking in the summer. Don't want to heat up the house.