The Washington Post travel section profiles three college town known for their music, including the birthplaces of R.E.M. and Superchunk (the third being Charlottesville, best known for giving rise to Dave Matthews Band, and for that reason may eat one. "One" presumably being a penis). So that right there is a roadtrip I'd like to take.

In high school, my R.E.M. love led me to consider for a hot minute going to University of Georgia. And maybe I should have if only for that and their adorable bulldog mascot, trotted out at football games. But I chose the school of the Pixies, Buffalo Tom, and Ben Stein's Money. Go Minutemen!