I'll second Oxford, cool town. You can go to Eli Manning's favorite diner Ajax then bounce around the bars there. Watch out tho, 11:30pm last call on Saturday nights. Other than that, it's a pretty specific and short distance for a road trip... I guess the university towns are your best bet. For beach parties the only places close that I can think of would be Panama City Beach and South Padre Island, but those are more spring break destinations.
I'm not sure where in the states you are from or what your time frame is like, but if you want a true dirty south road trip it would go like this for me:
Savannah>Charleston(USC)>Knoxville>Nashville>Memphis>Oxford(Ole Miss)>Starkville(Miss St)>Tuscaloosa(Bama)>New Orleans over the span of a month or so in the early fall. College towns on thursdays and gameday weekends, the other cities Sundays-Wednedays.
That's actually the close to the road trip I typically recommend to people when that ask me where to go in the states. I normally would take out a few of the college towns and add in Austin to finish.
I'm not sure where in the states you are from or what your time frame is like, but if you want a true dirty south road trip it would go like this for me:
Savannah>Charleston(USC)>Knoxville>Nashville>Memphis>Oxford(Ole Miss)>Starkville(Miss St)>Tuscaloosa(Bama)>New Orleans over the span of a month or so in the early fall. College towns on thursdays and gameday weekends, the other cities Sundays-Wednedays.
That's actually the close to the road trip I typically recommend to people when that ask me where to go in the states. I normally would take out a few of the college towns and add in Austin to finish.