That's cool. Traveling together is a real make-or-break test of a relationship, I think. People ought to take long trips together as part of their courtships.

I was 22 when I got married and he was 26, which is just nuts now that I look back on it. That's far too young. We'd only known each other for a year and a half or so. I was finishing grad school and he was in med school. But we were terribly hot for each other, and frankly, that was the motivation--to find a way to be able to easily sleep together. Marriage seemed like the solution. If I had it to do over again, I'd have sewn more wild oats and waited to settle down till I was in my 30s. A huge percentage of young marriages involving medical professionals don't survive the years of internship and residency.