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[quote=Anonymous]I'd skip California on this trip.  The West is big and do you want to spend a ton of time driving? It's 4.5 hours from Portland to Ashland (great Shakespeare festival) on the southern border and 6.2 hours to anything major in California (Redwood national park, 7.45 to Mount Lassen or Humboldt Redwoods State Park).
If you drive down the coast, unless it's foggy, the view is stupendous if a bit car-sick inducing for kids and there is some great stuff like Oregon Dunes, Seal Saves, the sea otters at Smith River, the sea stacks at Patrick's Point etc.   But that would be a really long car trip. 
Middle Oregon has some amazeballs stuff esp. if you like to trout fish, hike, walk a windy beach - the Umpqua River and Coos Bay for example. For some reason people I know like Lincoln City.
Portland is 3-4 hours from Seattle or Olympic National Park and once you are up there there are so many options! 
San Juan Islands
Dungeness lighthouse & wildlife reserve
Cape Flattery and the Makah Indian Reservation
Lake Crescent and the Sol Duc hot springs
Hoh rain forest 
ferry to Victoria on Vancouver island 
If you make it to Vancouver and get a car, you could drive to Tofino or Uclulet and take a boat ride to the hot springs cove waterfall or through Barkley Sound

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