We talked a lot about how we'd like to spend our honeymoon. Sipping pina coladas on a beach at an all inclusive resort? Pretending to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa for touristy pictures in Italy? Gazing longingly out of various rainy windows in the Great British Isles? It all just seemed too cliche...

Then it hit us. Duh! Road trip!

So in late March we will depart on an epic, two week, 3,000 mile journey from our home in Philadelphia through the southeastern U.S. And we could not be more pumped about it, you guys.

Day one we'll load up our cooler and strike out, driving through the famed mountains and forests of West Virginia, and playing "Take Me Home Country Road" on a constant, irritating loop. Our first night will be spent camped in the Monongahela National Forest. (Don't worry, we'll bring bear mace.)

From there, we'll make a mad dash to Nashville, where we plan to spend a day or so enjoying the music scene and eating enough Nashville hot chicken to give us stomach ulcers.

Then off to New Orleans, the furthest southwesterly point on the itinerary. We'll spend two full days touring cemeteries, checking out the French quarter, eating Cajun food, taking in some jazz, and riding around the swamp on one of those sweet air boats.

After that, we plan to swing back up the east coast at a slightly less frenetic place. We'll hit Savannah for some history and ghost tour goodness. Then up to Charleston, where we'll spend a day or two relaxing in one of the historic B&Bs, getting massages, and eating room service. Then we'll be setting up our tent for the night again near Colonial Williamsburg and spending a day touring the historic village there.

Finally, we'll finish out the trip with a day of D.C. museum visits, a romantic dinner, and a stay at a fancy hotel before heading home, where we will trudge up the steps to our apartment and fall, exhausted, into our bed, dreading our return to work on Monday, but knowing it was all worth it because this was the trip of a lifetime.