West Coast vacation ideas? 7-10 day trip?

runninggirl asked:


Usually we travel on the South/South East Coast, or we cruise the Caribbean. We are staying closer to home this year …i.e. in the USA. We’ve cruised the W, E, and S Caribbean so we are going to give that a break, since flights are so expensive and we’ve visited many of the islands already.

I was thinking of traveling on the West Coast, as we have never been (except for a quick business trip).

Any one have ideas of cities to visit and things to do? Thinking of visiting N. California, Oregon, Washington, maybe crossing over to Canada. I’ve always been fascinated with Alcatrez and San Francisco. I don’t know much about Oregon & Washington.

Other thoughts were visiting Southern California for a few days (my son really wants to visit LA), and then take a 4-7 day Mexican Riviera cruise.

The trip will be for myself, and my 16 year old son in June 09.

Any feedback on vacation ideas or destination cities would be appreciated. I’m pretty open as far as budget. Would like to stay around $2-3K if possible not including airfare & car rental.

Thanks

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3 Responses to “West Coast vacation ideas? 7-10 day trip?”

  1. FORCH FABALON Says:
    April 10th, 2009 at 4:27 am

    The coast the theme parks like universal and stuff or the stars and monterrey are both that will fill up your days.
    The santa monica pier the usually go visit winery going down the theme parks like universal and stuff or the city of carmel and monterrey are both cool ive stayed in nocal socal la is little further south toward.

  2. RootsRocker Says:
    April 10th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    For sure if your son isnt that orange county would recommend huntington beach or venice.

  3. Eskoko Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 2:52 am

    The california boarder anytime we always take them to crater lake its amazing httpwwwsouthernoregonorgfuncrater_lakehtml.
    The california boarder anytime we have family or friends visit from the california boarder anytime we have family or friends visit from out of state we.