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A month gives you a lot of breathing room to make this trip, though not too much - figure on five days from coast to coast, so there's ten days if you were just to make a trip out and back. However, this gives you another twenty to spend doing other things!

Start your planning with our planning pages. There you'll find a good article about road tripping on the cheap.

I did some searching and found some interesting festivals that are taking place at that time of the year:

Virginia Blues & Jazz Festival - this is in a remote and very beautiful area of the state.

Here is a list of festivals in Ohio in June. The duct tape festival sounds interesting. Looking through the list it appears some of these also include car shows.

EPodunk has quite an extensive list.

You have quite a bit of options to cross the country, too. You could head directly West on, say, the Lincoln Highway or the National Road; you could make it a straight journey on Interstate highways.

My thoughts on this would be to head South first then West. In early June the humidity isn't generally as bad as it will be closer to July in the South. Then you can explore the national parks of the West and start your way back East across the Northern tier of the country.

I also recommend taking the time to do some hiking in the parks as that is the way your boyfriend will be able to get some really nice shots that people don't see every day.