Are You Kamphey Approved?

So in between packing and actually leaving I’ve been writing articles for a Magazine that B.O. is editing over in Mongolia. Each article I write has a two word title in which one of those words is some form of Mongolia. Either just Mongolia or Mongolian or Mongolianess or whatever I come up with at the time and needs it. The 2nd article is called Approaching Mongolia. But this is not what this note is about.

I am trying to get your reader to get in your heads how amazing this experience will be, before I actually do it, before I write about it, before it even starts. Right this very moment I have just under 48 hours until I step onto a plane and begin a trip that will take over 27 hours to get from Palm Harbor, FL to Ulan Bataar, Mongolia. or UB as the locals call it.

Here’s a brief rundown of how to get to Mongolia Literally. Follow along on your google maps if you’d like.

Car: 3482 Tarpon Woods Blvd Palm Harbor, FL to Tampa International Airport Tampa, FL
Plane: Tampa, FL to Atlanta, GA
Plane: Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA
Plane: Los Angeles, CA to Bejing, China
Plane: Bejing, China to Ulaanbaatar Buyant Uhaa Mongolia
Taxi: Ulaanbaatar Buyant Uhaa Airport to the Apartment in a Tower in UB, Mongolia

I leave my current residence at 4:30pm July 9th
I will arrive at the Ulaanbaatar Buyant Uhaa Airport at 10:05am July 11th local time
which is 10:05pm July 10th in Florida.

So on to the preview part. What will I be doing? Unfortunately for you this is not the easy part. This is the part where I say something like “working for a 24 hour news network in Mongolia.” But that is not entirely true. yes I will be doing that but for merely a few hours a day. Brian has already contacted nearly every Ex-Pat in the area, talked with the Ex-Pat Theatre Company, talked with the Wayne’s World of Mongolia, talked with a few rock bands about music videos, B.O. has talked with all of these people about my imminent arrival to the Mongolian Steppe.

So again you ask, “what will you be doing?” I don’t know I still answer. I thought I described it a little. You’ll have to stop by Kamphey.WordPress.com frequently maybe two times a week to find any links to current projects or notes on ideas for projects. My blog will be a sounding board for interesting concepts, maybe a few story boards. Hopefully you’ll get some links to finished products. Maybe you’ll see some voice over work for a children’s program. Maybe you’ll listen to a podcast called This Mongolian Life. Maybe you’ll find a photo of Genghis Khan in a Santa Cap, subtitled Genghis Claus. Side Note: that picture is already on the blog.

The ones who have to fear the most are not the Mongolians. They should be excited. My dear friends should be shaking in their boots. Get ready for another notch in the Kamphey Totem. Get ready for another blogging binge. Get ready for nothing you’ve ever read before, including a far more productive Kamphey. Kamphey has merely tested the waters with Minimum Wage Santa. get ready for productions you’ve never dreamed of. You’ll see rebrandings. you’ll see reruns. You might find out what it takes to make a Sub sandwich in Mongolia. You might see the first sightings of Mongolia’s only Elvis Impersonator. You might get to hear the sing songiness of Mongolian Throat Singers.

The only thing I won’t be doing in Mongolia: Sleeping.