By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published May 06, 2008 at 12:52 PM

All aboard! It's Travel Week at OnMilwaukee.com as we bring you stories big and small from destinations near and far. When you post travel-related reader blogs -- from Monday, May 5 through Sunday, May 11 -- you're automatically in the running to win an all-inclusive trip to a Mexican resort courtesy of Apple Vacations. The OnMilwaukee.com editorial staff will pick the best travel blog of the week and the winner will jet off to sunny Mexico! Get writing!

Trying to decide whether or not you want to share your thoughts on the world of travel with OnMilwaukee.com readers?

Submit reader blogs about your travel experiences, your travel dreams, your travel advice or whatever and you'll automatically be enterered to win a three-night trip -- all expenses paid (except the taxes and fees) -- to Riu Palace Riviera Maya in Mexico, courtesy of Apple Vacations.

The trip, which can depart from Milwaukee or Chicago, is valued at $2,250!

Maybe that's just the incentive you need to log in and start blogging!

Entries will be judged Monday, May 12 by the OnMilwaukee.com editorial staff and the winner will be announced the following day. Make sure to blog before midnight Sunday, May 11 to be eligible. 

Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.