<prompt> Human: My friends and I want to take a week long trip to the west coast to visit multiple cities and natural wonders. We are from the east coast and never have been to the other side. How do you suggest we plan our trip ? Should we get a tour package or plan our own trip ? If we plan our own trip what kind of hotels should we stay at and transportation should we use? Edit: we really dont have a time constraint. We will be done with our summer jobs by then and have a few weeks before school starts back again. We just want to spend no more than 1000 each.Assistant: How many friends are going?Fly to somewhere Las Vegas is a good choice - cheap flights from most places and rent a car. Or rent an RV.If you have hotel points, use them if you stay in cities. Or Airbnb. If you are going mostly for natural wonders, camp, or stay in near by motels.If you only have a week, dont try to cram in too much or too much driving. If you are mostly interested in natural wonders, Las Vegas, Bryce National Park, Zion National Park, Grand Canyon, maybe Santa Fe or Mesa Verde, back to Las Vegas would be good.If you are more interested in cities, Los Angeles, drive up the coast to San Francisco, fly back from San Fran.Have fun.Good luck.Human: Only 3 of us are going. We really want to see Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the grand canyon and antelope canyon. We can stay longer than a week but want to spend no more than 1,000 dollars each.  <response>: Thats way too much for a week. You will spend all your time driving and none of your time seeing.Cut back to a much tighter and more focused itinerary.Good luck. 