Any place I should check out on a trip west from Indiana to Wyoming to Northern California, to Portland, to Montana, and back home? Got a few places to stop, kin, classmates, etc.

Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron Nebraska.

Crater Lake in Oregon

Redwoods in Northern California

I'm sure you will get plenty of other suggestions. You will be covering a lot of territory.

Have fun and drive safe.

Museum of the Mountain Man.
Pinedale, Wyoming,

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
Great Falls, Mt.

Pioneer Village at Minden Nebraska if you like old cars and tractors

Sandhills of Nebraska/Valentine NWR

And all said above

Oregon Trail center Elko Nv
Eat at the Martin Hotel in Winnemucca Nv
Lake Tahoe
High dessert museum in Bend Or
Hit both Lassen and Crater Lake at least to drive thru on your way north
Hwy 101 and the redwoods if you make the northern Ca coast

Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, WY

Skip Portland altogether !

Pendleton woolen mills
Pendleton Or and rodeo museum also under ground tour and history
Pendleton distillery

Custer State Park elk, buffalo and about everything else! The Black Hills is a place to check out too.

Thanks Brothers.

Feel free to PM me about northern California. There some great spots in the north.

The Redwoods north of the Golden Gate are a sight to see. Craters of the Moon National Monument and/or Yellowstone NP for sharp contrast to Indiana.

Custer is a nice area, great hamburger place there, grind their own meat and bake their own buns every day

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Washburn ND

Mammoth dig in Hot Springs, Custer State Park, Reptile Gardens if your into spiders/snakes and alligators, Jewel Cave has a spelunking tour so does Wind Cave, the Bad Lands is cool. Don't waste you money in Deadwood they don't payout much there try the 1st gold if you do.