Should I visit him?

I have this male friend I’ve known for a few years, actually he is a bit more than a friend, who wants me come and visit him for a week or two and see if we could be something more than that. I’d be his first girlfriend and he’d be my first nonsuperficial relationship, one I can possibly see going on for more than three months…

While I do want to go visit him and see but I’m afraid that when I go see him that it wont change our relationship for the better but would just tear us and what feelings we have apart and also I’m kinda afraid to admit something I’m slowly realizing is true, three words I try to keep seperated from all non-platonic relationships “I love you” is all I want to keep yelling to him at the top of my lungs something which scares me and may just scare him off at being said so soon.

And to make matters worse he’s in the army and to go visit him I, a girl from south florida with not so conservative morals in which the us government holds dear, would have to visit him on an army base in georgia. While the fact that I can barely understand the southern accent is something I can get around, I tend to enjoy wearing as little clothing as possible which is a bit out of the question if I ever want to leave his room while there. Something which would be fun if not for the fact I’d be stuck on an army base… So yeah I do have that one issue…

So basically I want to know if I should go and see him, the man I may possibly love who accepts me with all my quirks and manipulations?

Or should I stay home and tell him that I want to wait a year until he comes back from touring Iraq to see if I’m ready to visit?