Just go for it. If you don't mind driving - suggest you do that the front end of your trip - as far

We're flying from the East Coast and would love to visit Seattle used scamp travel trailer this summer... see family in Oregon and finish in California. I've always wanted to see LA. Is this too much to do by car once we've landed in Seattle?
used scamp travel trailer It is too much. Have you looked at the map? It takes about 10 hours to get from Seattle to San Francisco used scamp travel trailer without stops on I-5. You don't see anything, but just drive. I guess it depends on how much time you have, if you have a month or more, then it is doable.
THanks all - we have 2 weeks. I am interested in seeing northern CA too. LA is a wish list... We were thinking of trying to do it all at once. Family is in Portland. used scamp travel trailer We would spend a few days at least with them.
Highlights for us in Oregon -- well they were all pretty amazing -- was Portland itself, a wonderful and liveable town (we're going there tomorrow for the weekend, in fact!); Eugene (one of the prettiest college towns I've seen); Crater used scamp travel trailer Lake (my husband and I still talk about the starry night sky there, and how it was the best star watching we had ever seen!).
In California -- either the route from the east, down Lake Tahoe; Yosemite; to L.A. is a nice way to go. Or through Sacramento, to San Francisco, then the coast route down through Monterey is another.
Didn't see surfergirl's post. IMO it would certainly make a doable 'road trip'- in other words a driving tour. But not a visiting or stopping over trip. Especially w/ your few days in Portland. Even if you only mean 3 days there - that only leaves 11 days to go all the way to LA and back to Seattle -doesn't leave much time to stop/detour/visit places.
2 days in Seattle, 1 day to Portland via Mount St. Helens, 4 days in Portland including one to Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge, then 2 days driving to SF via the coast and Redwoods, 1 day in SF, 1 to LA via 101, and the last 3 in LA. Sure, it's a bit rushed, but totally doable. It would obviously require a one-way car rental, but that would be necessary in lieu of driving all the way back to Seattle, for which there wouldn't be time.
LA is one of my least favorite places in CA. I really like San Fran, San Diego, Yosemite, Sequoia, the drive along the coast(Montery/Big Sur area),Pt. Reyes, Northern California(redwoods, lassen national park) far far better than LA. I like Death Valley, used scamp travel trailer but wouldn't suggest it in the summer.
used scamp travel trailer IF the mentioned drop-off fees become obstacles, you might consider flying from your home to Portland, and renting a car there for/after time spent with family, used scamp travel trailer then driving north for a round-trip to visit Seattle - Mt. Rainier on the way up, and Mt. St. Helens on the way back??? (maybe leave Portland to the east, and then go through the Columbia Gorge, and then north via the path between Carson, WA and Randle, WA , enroute to Mount Rainier {visiting Paradise or Sunrise there} and then on toward Seattle via the east side of Mt. Rainier)
Upon return to Portland after your time in Seattle, then take a TRAIN from Portland to San Fran, where you could rent another vehicle, for a southern "loop" including L.A. and back to fly home out of San Fran. That for consideration mainly in the event that rental car one-way fees are too costly . You'd also price the airfares to the various combinations of arrival-departure destinations as well, seeking the best match between airfare and rental car prices.
IF you drive between Portland and San Fran, the main Interstate (#5) is fastest, but some would drive eastward toward Bend, in central Oregon, and then south from there seeing Crater Lake along the way. Others might drive down the coast most/all the way, and still another option is to drive any combination of I-5 and/or Hwy 97 (from Bend) and then cut to the coast from Grants Pass, OR.
With two weeks you can give it a good, solid effort, and perhaps not get the fullest effect of L.A., but you could at least touch the reasons why you always thought you wanted to see L.A. in the first place. (nothing quite like walking around the Hollywood Walk of Fame @ 3:22 in the morning, just because it was the only time you could fit it in ) (you can sleep on the plane ride back home!)
Just go for it. If you don't mind driving - suggest you do that the front end of your trip - as far south as you want to go in Cal (the Bay area and Carmel/Monterrey/Big Sur are very nice) - and then take your time making it back to Oregon/Wash.