A list of our favorite places, plus sites that we want to go to but haven’t seen yet, in Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah. Because the western U.S. is so big and so full of awesome sights to see, I’m dividing them up, and I’ll list the Rocky Mountain states and Southwest states in my next post.

Ideally, we needed more than one day to explore San Francisco. However, we were staying over an hour away, (more like an hour an a half when factoring in traffic slowdowns), and we just didn’t want to deal with the crazy highway traffic that wore us out. So, we crammed in the highlights that we really wanted to see into one day.