Initial plans are to do some longer (2-3 day) but simple trails around socal to get the hang of how it handles. I'll Probably do a few days death valley and maybe the Mohave road, there is also a trip to pyramid lake NV in the near future (with Adventure Trailers) that I plan on going on. We have plans to take our existing double cab mog around the grand canyon and upto the white rim, we'll probably do that trip in this mog now. In the next year we'll probably head to Alaska as well but ultimately I want to head south.
CA are fine with older mogs, after about 85 you may have problems because the truck will not meet federal regs. Getting them registered is just a hassle, they have no idea what it is and they always give a weight and type classification that you don't want, this usually means you end up paying more. This one should be real easy because its obviously an camper so no arguing with them about is it legally a pickup or not.
Rob