from How to Make Every Trip a Honeymoon

Before you go, rent movies filmed at or about your destination.

Buy a bon voyage gift for the two of you—even if you’re not taking a cruise.

Buy a new bathing suit in your partner’s favorite color.

Read romantic novels set in your destination.

Buy a puzzle of your surprise destination. Mail a piece to your lover every day or leave a piece in a lunch or briefcase.

Buy little soaps and shampoos when staying at inexpensive motels.

Buy matching—or personalized—beach towels.

Buy self-tanning lotion and help each other get a head start on your tans before you leave home. Don’t miss any spots!

Buy your partner a subscription to a travel magazine.

Change your computer background to a picture of your destination.

Enroll the two of you in dance lessons—ballroom, salsa, merengue, your pick. Put your new skills to work on your vacation!

Cruise the Internet and look for online postcards from your destination.

Email one to your lover every day leading up to the trip.

Have a countdown to your trip, each day surprising your lover with a small gift—a special suntan lotion, a pair of sexy boxers, a neck pillow for the airplane, etc.

Tack a map to the wall. Blindfold your honey and have him/her toss a dart to select your next destination together. Find a map in the scale of your vacation budget—your region, your state, your country--the world!

Look for postcards or brochures of your destination. Leave them on your partner’s windshield.

Make a formal invitation on your computer, inviting your partner to a weekend of romantic travel.

Order a guidebook online and have it shipped—gift wrapped—to your partner at work.

Pamper yourself with beauty treatments before the trip. Many spas offer bride’s packages with relaxing massages, make up application, and beauty treatments. Who says you have to be a bride to deserve a day of beauty in preparation for your trip?

Rent foreign films in he language of your destination.

Send your partner “love coupons” redeemable during the trip.

Make a wish list of destinations you would love for the two of you to visit someday.

Set your VCR to tape your partner’s favorite TV shows while you’re traveling.

Start a “dream trip” travel file together with clips and brochures for trips you would like to take together.

Write a love letter to your partner before the trip, detailing your expectations and your love.