Michael, we live and drive in CA all the time. Just mind your own business and do the speed limit and nobody will bother you. For what it's worth when you come down from Coburg I would advise a little drive thru the woods to get to AZ. We came down last month and the normal route would be the 5 to the 210 to the 10 and out thru the desert. I will never do it again, once you get up the Grapevine the road turns to complete crap. We don't have a noise in our bus and it took me a week to get the rattles out. When you get to Sacramento p/u the 99 down to the 58 east over Tehachapi and then you can drop south on 395 to the 15 and to the 10 or stay on 58 and p/u 40 going east depending on where your going in AZ. This keeps you north of L.A. and it's nice driving up in the high desert. I didn't look at the map but I don't think it's more then 40 miles different.