Honeymoon Trip from a Message in a Bottle

Filed in archive Offbeat on July 16, 2006

John Reed was one of the lucky ones.

He found a message in a bottle. It would have been romantic if it was written by some beautiful lady stuck in an island. Alas, that was not the kind of luck John had in store for him. The message in the old rum bottle which he found while fishing off the Gulf Coast beach was only one of the 12 tossed in the ocean off Grand Cayman Island. And inside were: free certificates for a plane ticket, a hotel stay and rum.

The story becomes romantic after all, though. John plans to use these travel freebies for his honeymoon trip in late July.

To win a FREE TRIP is one of the things in life which most of us can only dream about. Or, which very few of us have been lucky to receive.

You may be one of the lucky ones, though. The next time you head to the beach, watch out for more rum bottles which could be floating out in the water. Apparently, seven of the 12 promotional bottles tossed out by Tortuga Rum have yet to be redeemed.

[source: KPTV]