Yeah they would be a nice couple together
From my own experience, it is hard to resist the temptations while travelling with someone as a friend. You just naturally develop attraction, despite how you want to resist. You're experiencing new things together, sitting together, smelling each other, making incidental contact, sharing food maybe, and usually seeing the other person in a swimsuit. Mother nature takes over!
Are folks from the East Coast quite liberal? People I'm met are all awfully nice, that's for sure.
And BTW - I'd give the girl an 8/10 GND looks... not hot enough to earn a 9. Hows my rating scale compared to yours?