Busy Bees.

Oooh we've been so busy over here ("bidgee bidgee" as one of my students would say).  Planning a RTW trip is a lot more challenging than I expected it to be.  I thought we could just hop on a plane to wherever and take it from there.  I mean, I guess we still can but now that we've got a budget we've got to plan just a little more carefully.  Budgets.  Gross.

Want to know what we've got so far?  Too bad, because I'm going to tell you anyway.  Close your browser if you wish. 

Well, we're planning on starting off in Seattle.  We leave Korea in May and want to spend some time with our families and friends.  We're hoping that we'll be able to jet off to NYC in June for the NoFF Film Festival then depart from there to Ecuador (or Panama depending on our mood).  We might be able to even get a free trip to Brazil and Argentina if we win Filmmaker of the Year on TripFilms.  (clickity click here to get in your last minute vote for Captain and Clark- we'd love you to the moon and stars)

From there we'll head around South America (after the Galapagos, of course) to deliver whatever letters are addressed around the area.  Once we're finished, we'll hop on a plane and head to EUROPE!  Ahhhh Greece!  Italy!  Spain!  France- oh mon dieu!  It's a shame that this girl has her Bachelor's in French and has never even stepped foot in the country- or Europe as a whole for that matter!  Don't worry- I've been brushing up on my français.  Ahem... Excusez-moi mais... savez-vous à quelle heure ouvre la Louvre? 

I know that Europe's going to be the most expensive leg of the journey (champagne and pain au chocolats on the daily), but we've got a number of friends there and I'm crossing my fingers that we'll have accommodations for the majority of the trip.  (Hear that friends?  I'm showing up at yo' doorsteps) 

From Europe we'll head to India- whether there's a letter addressed there or not.  The boy has been there before and I'm just itching to see the Taj Mahal and experience the Delhi Belly.  Well, maybe not the last one so much, but you best believe I'm going to stuff my face with as much curry and naan as humanly possible. 

After India we'll hopefully catch a flight to Bangkok and spend the remainder of our trip trolling around Southeast Asia.  If we're lucky, and not too poor, we might try to hit up Australia.  Again, the boy's been there but we both want to get our scuba on- Great Barrier Reef style. 

I'm sure there will be a lot of changes made to this "itinerary" over the next few months but it sure is fun to map this whole journey out.  Let us know if you have any advice on what's the best way to go about purchasing our airfare, or any advice in general (like how to make a turkey out of kimchi).  And while I still have you here; check out the latest video that the beau made for the newest addition to our family.  It's so purdy.

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The best way to travel Korea?

Take a TRAIN!

I know only half of you will be as excited as the boy and I were for our first Korean train experience.  To be fair, we're American and we don't really have trains.  Not really.  We have the mini "choo-choo trains" that you ride around Santa's workshop in the malls around Christmas time.  We also have mystery trains.  Those are fun, but not really how one would get from point A to point B.  (Unless those points involve solving a murder)

When we got back from our first cross-country train ride we gushed about it to our friends... who are British.  They were not impressed.  But hey- it's super fast, has a dining car, and is so much smoother than taking the bus.  My name's Tawny Clark and I love trains.

Oh!  And a little tidbit of information for you- the onomatopoeia for a train in Korea is "cheek-cheek-bok-bok cheek-cheek-bok-bok" instead of "chuga-chuga-choo-choo".   I don't know which one I like better. 

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The Final Countdown...

Holy balls!  We only have a little over a week left until the polls are closed for TripFilms Filmmaker of the Year award. 

Have you voted yet?  (Preferably for, you know... us)

And have you seen our competition?!  We were dumbstruck that Captain and Clark was even nominated under the category of Filmmaker of the Year, but it really hit home when we saw all of our competition.  They.are.amazeballs.  No joke.  I would love love love to win the grand prize, but in all honesty, just being nominated was an enormous honor.  High caliber people, high caliber.

But hey, it's not over yet and we'd still like to give our comp. a run for their money.  If you would please donate a few minutes of your time and approximately 5 clicks of your mouse we would greatly appreciate your vote.  And if by some miracle we win, I promise that I'll send you all a hypothetical cigar and/or unicorn.  Unicorns are congratulatory, right?

To vote for Captain and Clark just click HERE.

Our categories include:
Filmmaker of the Year (The big 'un)
Destination Profile Award
Getting Local Award

We really can't thank you enough! 

And this is just for reading... a little teaser of things to come, if you will.

Bringing you N Seoul Tower in HD Video.

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Merci Beaucoup!

Gracias!  Merci!  Asante sana!  Gratzi!  Gamsahamnida!  Dankie dat yj! Shei shei! Domo arigato! Diolch yn fawr! Saawap di kha!  Obrigado! Salamat! And you can't see it, but I'm thanking you in sign language as well.

(If anyone from my Bolivia study abroad program can remember how to say "thank you" in Quechua, it'd be much appreciated.  I can only remember how to say "big, drunk duck".) 

For those of you that voted for us on Trip Films, Thank you.  Because of you, Captain and Clark are now Trip Film's Member of the Month.   Woot woot.  We even got a purdy picture right on their homepage.  I cannot stress how excited we about the whole thing.  Trip Films is an excellent resource for any traveler and there are so many opportunities to earn rewards, cash, and even hotel accommodation through the videos that you submit.  Uhm... awesome.   So, thank you again for all of your support.  We really do appreciate it.

Cheers!

Captain and Clark

Post Script. 
Check us out in all our "Member of the Month" glory.

Would You Be So Kind...

Captain and Clark have been nominated as Trip Film's member of the month!  We absolutely love Trip Films and how they've helped promote our videos.  If you would be so kind, the boy and I would really appreciate it if you took a few minutes out of your day to vote for us.  You'll have to register an account for yourself but then you'll be able to upload your own travel videos.  You can check all of it out right here.