I am hoping to pick up one of the Florida "drive-down" specials this fall and craft a road trip from Washington DC to Miami.

I fly into DCA on 11/13 and pland to spend a couple of days seeing the city, then driving off on the morning of 11/16. I then fly out of MIA on the evening of 11/28.

I am a 40yo male travelling solo, so I plan to skip Orlando and all the "family" stuff. I'm more interested in natural scenery - I did a 3-week, 2500-mile Western national parks road trip in the fall of '16 and absolutely loved it. I also enjoy coastal drives and quite like pleasant, smaller cities.

Preliminary research suggests I should take I-66 out of DC, then roughly the route of I-81 south (340 through the Shenandoah?), then past Charlotte to Savannah (worth swinging west through Asheville and the Cherokee?), then down either of the Florida coasts (leaning towards the Gulf Coast).

I would like to have a day or two at the end of the trip to chill out and maybe head down to one of the quieter Keys, so I would like to arrive in Miami on the 25th or 26th, giving me 9-10 days to do the trip.

Firstly, how realistic a timeframe is this? I envisage 3 or 4 stops of 2-3 nights each along the way, with around 4 progress-making driving days to do the 1200-1300 miles or so.

I am an experienced long distance driver and don't mind hammering out 600 miles in a day if I have to, but would prefer to keep it to about 300 so that I am actually seeing stuff, not through a car window at 70mph.

Am I looking at the right kind of route for my interests? Can anyone suggest anything I'm missing?