Two Spring Break or Summer Travel Books – Plus Giveaway

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I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I love to read when I fly and when relaxing on the beach. That is, I love to read when flying and relaxing on the beach sans children. A couple of travel themed books have recently crossed my path that I would love to share with you. I won’t lie, I have yet to read either, but I am excited to. Both are supposedly laugh-out-loud funny, non-fiction accounts (surely a bit embellished) and Travelers Tales books.  Both books are in my carry-on for my next adventure – and guess what! We’re giving away two of each (see below to see how to win your copy).

Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Do you love behind-the-scenes, tell-all stories? I do – give me the scoop! If you do, too, or even if you simply like comic writing and humorous tales, Cruise Confidential is for you. Author Brian David Bruns has earned his right to write this story, having worked on Carnival Cruise Line. In the book he indulges his readers with his personal encounters and experiences. Today, Bruns is a professional speaker, artist and author of another book: Comstock Phantoms: True Ghost Stories of Virgina City.

A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: This is another non-fiction, first person account written by author Gary Buslik. The author appears to know his islands as he reveals tales of his adventures in the tropical, turquoise world of what we call the Caribbean and it sounds like he found the humor to go along with it. The cool part, he’s also a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago – now, he’s a professor I would have loved to have had in college.

Are you in need of some vacation reading?  Here’s how you can win these two books. Leave a comment below answering either question: Where would you go if you could cruise anywhere in the world? Or, where in the Caribbean are you longing to visit?

I’ll pick one winner via a random-number generator. This giveaway will run through next Monday March 23, 6pm (EST) and I’ll announce the winners shortly after that. US residents only please (sorry, in this economy I don’t have the funds to be shipping out of the country – but you can certainly find these books on Amazon.com).

Good luck and happy travels!

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93 Responses to “Two Spring Break or Summer Travel Books – Plus Giveaway”

  1. 7dollarbook.info » Two Spring Break or Summer Travel Books - Plus Giveaway … says:
    March 16, 2009 at

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  2. Patty says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Cruise anywhere? Definitely the Mediterranian. Someday…..

  3. Janet says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Cruise me to Antarctica!!

  4. Sara says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Send me to the greek isles!! I have never been on a cruise but spend a lot of time thinking about one!

  5. Karen Gonyea says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I’d love to take an Alaskan cruise :)

  6. Susan says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    A Mediterranean cruise would be wonderful.

  7. Internyet says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Turks and Caicos. Definitely!

  8. Internyet says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Turks and Caicos. Definitely!
    Ooops, wanted have mentioned good post! Waiting on the next post!

  9. Kevin Folie says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    The all new CNBC Original, “Cruise Inc: Big Money on the High Seas” premieres on Tuesday, March 24 at 9p ET│10p PT. With unprecedented access, Peter Greenberg cruises the high seas for several days with an inside look at the effects of this economic downturn on the $30 billion cruise industry. Can the cruise industry stay afloat in this sinking economy? See the side of the industry you’ve never seen before on Tuesday, March 24 at 9p ET | 10p PT on CNBC.

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  10. Angie (Losing It and Loving It) says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Definitely longing to get back to Jamaica. We are booked for December so it’s tough to wait it out but we have done it for the past 3 years so I guess I can manage. The Rotten Person book sounds fun.

    As for cruising, I have never been on one and hubs has no interest. So I would have to to find a few friends to go with.

  11. susan varney says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    an alaskian cruise would be fine

  12. Susan Smith says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I have been on a cruise to the Caribbean and out next cruise we would like to go to Alaska.

  13. Travel Packages Riviera Maya says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    This is a great idea. Mamas deserve hollidays whitout children. You must to try Travel Packages Riviera Maya. Thank you.

  14. Jackie says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I’d love to do a whole world cruise that stops in Thailand and Australia as well as ports I haven’t even thought of yet!

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    March 16, 2009 at

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  16. Julie says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I would love love love to go on a cruise to the Mediterranean area – Greece and such. Sign me up!

  17. Debi Kuhn says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Are you kidding me! If I could cruise anywhere in the World, I’d take a WORLD cruise, get a quick feel and make a LONG list of all the places I want to spend more time!

  18. MRS.MOMMYY says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    alaskan cruise for sure

  19. Meredith Rogen says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I would like to go on an Alaskan cruise as well.

  20. Cindi says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    Hello! I would enjoy a cruise around Europe!
    Thanks for the fantastic book giveaway drawing.
    Please enter my name in the contest.
    Many thanks, Cindi

  21. shannon Baas says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise the far east.

  22. Kiki says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I would love to visit the Greek Isles on a Cruise!

    ParkingGoddessFTW at gmail dot com

  23. Jennifer Moore says:
    March 16, 2009 at

    I would really like to do an Alaskan cruise. Thanks for the chance to win.

  24. hawkshoe says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I am longing to take a cruise of the Mediterannian. For the Caribbean, I have a strong desire to visit Curacau (probably spelled that wrong, sorry)

  25. Cynthia C says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise the Greek islands. Thanks for the giveaway.

  26. travel lady says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I would have to say a would love to do a European cruise. After spending a month in Italy and France last summer, I just want MORE!

  27. david basile says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    new zealand

  28. Lisa says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I would love to see Alaska!

  29. Susan C says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise to Polynesia!

  30. evelyn says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    enter me

  31. Angela J says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I’d go wherever it’s warm and beautiful.

  32. Carol Lawrence says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    Send me on an Alaskan Cruise and I will be happy.

  33. Zoly says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    A Caribbean Cruise would be just great.

  34. Jan Ross says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    1. I would love to take one of the river cruises in Europe.

    2. Aruba. I keep hearing people talk about it and it’s one place I have never been.

  35. Sharon A says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I want to cruise the Panama Canal.

  36. Denise says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I’d love to take an Alaskan cruise someday.

  37. Pat says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    Cruise to Alaska in summer sounds interesting. Thank you for the contest.

  38. Andria says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    I would love to go to cuba when its allowed. My father was born there.

  39. Christina G. says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    If I could cruise anywhere, I’d pick Alaska. Thanks for the giveaway!

  40. Gina Stratos says:
    March 17, 2009 at

    Greece!
    gkstratos@yahoo.com

  41. Lisa says:
    March 18, 2009 at

    The Mediterranean would be great, but in the current economy, we are headed to the Carribean this summer! Maybe next year!!

  42. cathirb says:
    March 18, 2009 at

    I would definitely do a European Cruise, I have always wanted to visit the Greek Isles!

  43. Kim says:
    March 18, 2009 at

    I would like to cruise the Panama Canal, what better way to see it?

  44. Pamela S says:
    March 18, 2009 at

    Oh, I’d love to cruise the Mediterranean Sea!!!

  45. denice p says:
    March 19, 2009 at

    im sure if there is a direct cruise there but i sure would love to cruise to Venice. The pics are just beautiful. It’s one of my “one day” places! lol thank you. i sure love books too!

  46. Jason says:
    March 19, 2009 at

    I would like to cruise up to the Arctic Circle around Alaska and look at the glaciers

  47. wendy wallach says:
    March 19, 2009 at

    I would take a baltic cruise if I had the choice of any cruise in the world.
    madamerkf at aol dot com

  48. Linda Traurig says:
    March 19, 2009 at

    I would like to cruise the Greek Islands. Love reading stories on “world travelers”…..

  49. Debra C. says:
    March 20, 2009 at

    Either the Greek Islands or a river cruise.

  50. Pat says:
    March 20, 2009 at

    I’d like to cruise the Hawaiian islands.

  51. Rose Roberts says:
    March 20, 2009 at

    If I could could cruise to anywhere in the world, it would have to be Italy to look up my roots (on my mom’s side)

  52. Lori says:
    March 20, 2009 at

    My husband and I want to take an Alaskan Cruise for our 25th anniversary.

  53. EdV says:
    March 20, 2009 at

    If I could go anywhere I’d be off to Antarctica so fast it wouldn’t be funny.

  54. mindy says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    alaska that is one cruise i would love to take thanks for the giveaway

  55. Kathy Scott says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    I want to take an australian cruise.

  56. Vicki Wurgler says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    I’d like to do an Alaskan cruise

  57. Sandy M says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    If I could cruise there … I’d go to Australia and New Zealand. But it’s a long way and the food is so good that they’d probably have to roll me off the ship.

  58. Cori K says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    I’ve never cruised but I’d love to … I’ve never been to Hawaii either so I guess a cruise to Hawaii would be my dream.

  59. ky2here says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    I’d love to take a river cruise in either Europe or Russia.

  60. Jennifer Hedden says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    enter me

  61. Terra Heck says:
    March 21, 2009 at

    I’d like to read these books. Someday, I’d love to travel to Hawaii.

  62. leslie says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    Terrific

  63. Janice Wright says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise on one of those European river cruises.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  64. cheryl kellery says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I’d LOVE to read these – being an avid cruiser, 16 and counting. I still would like to visit St. Kitts on my must see islands and Barbados. Been just about everywhere else in the Caribbean.

  65. Jammie says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise to Hawaii

  66. christopher h says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    i’d love to cruise the mediterranean

  67. Ed Nemmers says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    Hawaii!

  68. Marion Burgess says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise to Europe!

  69. Amy S says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    If I were to recommend a cruise to a friend I would suggest the Alaska Inside passage. It’s very beautiful.

  70. shawna says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would love a cruise to Europe.

  71. Chrysa says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would like to cruise the Greek isles!

  72. Lisa Taylor says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    Bahamas

  73. Angie P. says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise the Mediterranean.

  74. Kathy S says:
    March 22, 2009 at

    I’d like the book “A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean.” This would be very interesting, since I’ve just returned from Aruba, the beautiful island that I fully intend on visiting at least twice a year for the rest of my life!

  75. Rosanne says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    We’re going on a cruise so this would be a fun read

  76. Rosanne says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    Forgot to answer the question I’d like to cruise the South Pacific

  77. Danielle says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I would cruise to Monaco. Probably not possible but a girl can dream right? I am the biggest Grace Kelly fan on the planet.

    Since no cruises go there I would cruise to Greece!

  78. Catherine copeland says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    where have i always wanted to cruise? hawaii. i’ve always wanted to go and i think that would be amazing

  79. Veronica Garrett says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I would cruise to Tahiti.

  80. Marie says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    We’ve always wanted to go on an Alaskan cruise — or a cruise along the New England coast in the fall.

  81. Shannon says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    the Mediterranean

  82. kathleen yohanna says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I am longing to take a cruise to Alaska and visit a sled dag camp.

  83. kathleen yohanna says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I am longing to take a cruise to Alaska and visit a sled dog camp.

  84. Cassandra says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    A cruise to the Mediterranean would be divine. Thanks!

  85. txfilly says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    The perfect cruise – around the world! Or at least the Mediterranean. I love to read when I fly also – and at a lot of other times too. These look like great books.

  86. tanya says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    If I could cruise anywhere, it would be to tahiti, and I’m longing to go to St. Kitts or St. Maarten in the caribbean. Love the blue waters!

  87. Marianna says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I’ve always wanted to cruise to Alaska!

  88. Donna K says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I want to go to Australia.

  89. Heather C says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    I would love to cruise around Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. My parents got to do just that, and I’m all green-eyed monster about it.
    These sound like great books! Thanks!

  90. jffryclough says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    i’d love to go back to the virgin islands

  91. Lily Kwan says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    If I could I would cruise around the world. =)

  92. Miranda Allen says:
    March 23, 2009 at

    Cruise me to alaska

  93. Guam-Hotel.Net » Blog Archive » Cruise and Caribbean Book Winners says:
    March 24, 2009 at

    [...] But first we want to thank all of our readers for entering our Spring or Summer Travel Books Giveaway and announce our two winners are: #21 Shannon Baas and #65 Jammie. Please contact me at desertmama [...]

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