Looking for snow advice - POSITIVE COMMENTS ONLY

I have a friend that if you say you're going to "where ever" He'll say Do you have to go?. In this case I'd probably say no I don't have to. I drove through a wet snowstorm around 300 miles because I was close? to home. 4 wheel drive 30 mph all the way. Never again. Maybe you get lucky and not run into bad weather but I guess I would not take the chance. When we leave Wi for AZ it's as straight south as possible and for as long as I can drive to get as far south as possible.