While researching Pompeii, I stumbled upon a photo of “Pompeii’s unluckiest guy” on CNN, and he inspired the following skit.
read more >Tag: travel humor
It only took a global pandemic for me to catch up on my backlog of writing.
read more >Rest assured, that when this book is finally finished, it will not have been worth the wait. I guarantee it.
read more >Hey, I wrote a travel book.

Do you like to travel? Can you read? Then you should buy—and maybe even read—my forthcoming travel advice book.
Why would anyone in their right mind write another travel book?
Because the world needs to know. After being dragged around most of the planet for the last 30+ years, I’ve cobbled together a book about my experiences—and it has chapters and everything!
Here are 3 credible-sounding reasons to read it.
- It’s informative-ish. Save time, money, and the lives of your loved ones with travel tips no one else has the guts to type.
- It’s entertaining-ish. Unlike most travel books, this one will make you laugh inside your mind, where no one can judge you.
- It’s affordable-ish. I was told $6.99 is the optimum price for an ebook, but mine is easily worth more like $7.29.
In my epic travel tome, you’ll learn stuff like:
- Where to vacation when you only speak English
- What to do on vacation before it gets outlawed forever
- Where to eat in foreign countries, so you don’t die
- How to afford travel without selling your organs
- And a whole lot more…
“This is easily the most effort I’ve ever put toward anything, and if people don’t like it, I’ll spiral downward into crushing despair and substance abuse. Enjoy!”
—Peter Crosby, Author

Peter Crosby is an award-winning, professional writer who has won a very real International Writer’s Contest. He currently lives with his wife and her cats in the San Francisco Tampa Bay Area where he drinks wine and watches too much TV.
Read what others have said about the author.

“Whenever I am on an adventure to a third-world Dictatorland® and need a wingman who I can count on to provide caustic banter, wear homeless skate-punk garb, use regional profanity, and drink like an unemployed stevedore, Pete is my main man. If he’s not available, I call his spirit animal, Anthony Bourdain.”
—David Jellison, Idea Pimp

“Crosby has been doggedly writing online about his international travels since the Palm Pilot epoch. The thought of an actual book collecting those writings and preserving them forever fills me with dread.”
—Kevin Zimmerman, Editor/Jackhole

“Peter has visited some incredible places all over the globe, and now brings that wealth of personal experience to his writing, for all I know.”
—Ward Evans, Writer/Director

“Peter Crosby has a face for radio, but a nose for travel.”
—Graham Lee, Chief Creative Officer

“Hands and feet down, the most traveled biped I know in the 48 contiguous states.”
—Terry Doyle, Writer

“Nothing makes me want to leave the country faster than Peter Crosby.”
—Mike Ruiz, Creative Director
Find out when my book drops.
If you’re not persuaded to sign up after reading endorsements from people you probably don’t know and will likely never meet, then there’s nothing more I can do other than threatening your family, and I’m honestly not above that, Janet!
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Twenty three years after I left Florida for my career, it was time to return to my adopted hometown.
read more >Look, I’m a retired now, and I’d think you’d agree that writing travel reports hardly qualifies as a good reason not to lie by the pool. Right? So I’ll get around to finishing that report when I get around to it. Okay? Okay. Come back in a few weeks. It might be up by then. […]
read more >That question has mystified philosophers, scholars, and Internet search engines since as far back as 1990.
read more >We gave Paris another chance to not suck, and it didn’t at all.
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Every month, the CrosbyReport’s satirical take on travel will distract you from bettering yourself.
Recently in the CrosbyReport™:
The visions people had in Jaffa were inspired by either religious fervor or a ton of opiates.
Tel Aviv is located in the Holy Land yet, weirdly, it’s never once mentioned in the Bible.
Positano Italy is so superficially attractive, I can’t believe it hasn’t leaked a sex tape.
Amalfi Italy was once a major port, so some lazy Italians named the entire coast after it.
The towns along Italy’s Amalfi Coast were clearly built by human/mountain goat hybrids.
Pompeii was the orgasm capital of Ancient Rome until Mt. Vesuvius came all over the place.
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