Join the 2009 Travel Bloggers’ Caravan & Win Cool Prizes

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Andrea M. Rotondo in East Africa, Indian Ocean, North Africa, Southern Africa

Is the Lingo 16-Language Trans­la­tor (avail­able from Magellan’s Travel Sup­plies) on your hol­i­day wish list? If so, read this entire post to find out how to enter and win a trans­la­tor for yourself!

I’m thrilled to announce the first (and, hope­fully, annual) Travel Blog­gers’ Car­a­van. Start­ing today, I invite you to fol­low 15 top travel blog­gers for a chance to win prizes in cel­e­bra­tion of the season.

Prizes range from hotel gift cards and overnight stays to dig­i­tal cam­eras and noise-cancelling head­phones to lug­gage and cam­era bags to travel guide­books and DVDs. Magellan’s Travel Sup­plies has signed on as a spon­sor of this event. If you’ve got a trav­eler on your hol­i­day shop­ping list, check out the unique gifts avail­able at Magellan’s web­site.

Each day, between Decem­ber 2–15, a dif­fer­ent travel expert’s blog will be fea­tured in this round robin event. You’ll have a chance to win one of over a dozen prizes by read­ing and com­ment­ing on the daily blog post.

The Car­a­van starts tomor­row! Sim­ply visit the Lux­ury Cruise Bible blog each morn­ing to learn about the fea­tured Car­a­van “stop-of-the-day” between Decem­ber 2 and 15, and then enter to win.

LuxurySafariExperts.com will be fea­tured on Decem­ber 15, 2009. Mark your cal­en­dar and be sure to com­ment on my post that day in order to be entered in the giveaway.

Com­plete Travel Car­a­van Schedule

Decem­ber 2: LuxuryCruiseBible.com (Andrea M. Rotondo)
$100 Mar­riott gift card

Decem­ber 3: DreamofItaly.com (Kathy McCabe)
One-year online sub­scrip­tion to Dream of Italy newslet­ter & DVD ($79 value)

Decem­ber 4: NovelDestinations.com (Shan­non McKenna Schmidt & Joni Ren­don)
Lit­er­ary Travel Prize Pack
(A tote bag, Novel Des­ti­na­tions book, travel kit, note cards, tea, book­marks, and a keychain.)

Decem­ber 5: TheBrooklynNomad.com (Andrew Hickey)
Imag­ine: A Vagabond Story by Grant Lin­gel and $50 Magellan’s gift certificate

Decem­ber 6: The Tran­quilo Trav­eler (Joshua Berman)
A copy of Moon Belize, accom­pa­nied with per­sonal travel advice from the author about your trip

Decem­ber 7: CiaoBambino.com (Amie O’Shaughnessy and Kristi Mar­celle)
Napa Val­ley Get­away
(One-night stay at the Westin Verasa in Napa, Cal­i­for­nia,
plus gourmet lunch for two on the Napa Val­ley Wine Train)

Decem­ber 8: JohnnyJet.com (John DiS­cala)
Alaska and Seat­tle Tour­saver books ($198 value) and $50 Magellan’s gift certificate

Decem­ber 9: What a Trip (Nancy D. Brown)
Two Otter­box cell phone cases ($50 value each)
and
One Briggs and Riley Base­line 20” Carry-On Expand­able Wide-Body Upright ($369 value)

Decem­ber 10: JtheTravelAuthority.com (Jea­nine Barone)
Moun­tain­smith Tour FX Cam­era Bag ($99 value)

Decem­ber 11: CruiseDiva.com (Linda Coff­man)
Fodor’s The Com­plete Guide to Caribbean Cruises and a World Ground­ing Set (cour­tesy of Magellan’s)

Decem­ber 12: EllenBarone.com (Ellen Barone)
Day pack from First Ascent, a new extreme adven­ture line of gear and cloth­ing
by Eddie Bauer and part­ners ($79 value)

Decem­ber 13: MyItchyTravelFeet.com (Donna L. Hull)
“Library Edi­tion” of the most recent sea­son of “Rudy Maxa’s World”,
includ­ing six DVDs con­tain­ing 13 shows on des­ti­na­tions in India, Turkey, Japan, Thai­land, St. Peters­burg, Esto­nia, and Argentina ($112 value)

Decem­ber 14: EuropeUpClose.com (Terri Fog­a­rty)
Fuji­film FinePix J28 10MP dig­i­tal cam­era with 3x opti­cal zoom

Decem­ber 15: LuxurySafariExperts.com (Andrea M. Rotondo)
Fold­ing noise-cancelling head­phones cour­tesy of Magellan’s Travel Supplies

If you love explor­ing new des­ti­na­tions and revis­it­ing old favorites, you won’t want to miss the Travel Blog­gers’ Car­a­van & Give­away! You just may dis­cover a few new favorite travel blogs to bookmark.

Win a Lingo 16-Language Translator

Help us kick off the Car­a­van right now! Fol­low @luxcruisebible and then tweet about the Travel Blog­gers’ Car­a­van between Decem­ber 1 and 15. Include a link to this blog post and the #car­a­van hash­tag and you’ll be entered to win the Lingo 16-Language Trans­la­tor, cour­tesy of Magellan’s Travel Sup­plies. Entrants must have a U.S. mail­ing address. Entries must be received between Decem­ber 1–15, 2009. One win­ner will be ran­domly cho­sen from eli­gi­ble entries on Decem­ber 21, 2009. Win­ner will be noti­fied via Twit­ter DM (direct message).

Just log onto Twit­ter and tweet some­thing like this:
Check out the Travel Blog­gers’ Car­a­van. 15 travel blog­gers and tons of cool prizes to win. http://bit.ly/6zfZEr #caravan


—Andrea M. Rotondo for LuxurySafariExperts.com

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