One of the key links in the process that will let us produce regular episodes of our adventures here is shipping footage back to the US from our setup in the field.  However, this is not as simple as it sounds.  Today Rob and I set off with a fairly simple goal – take a stack of full tapes to a DHL shipping center and send them along to Jed for post production work.   We hopped in a cab, showed the driver the address, and sat back to enjoy the ease at which we were completing our task.  The first problem was that the DHL shipping center wasn’t in our district or the next district or on this side of the river, or even near the other side.  It was in fact almost an hour away though the dense and extremely prevalent Ho Chi Minh City traffic.  The laughs continued once we got there as we were told that customs need to watch each and every tape before they could be sent out, and “oh, we don’t have a machine for them. Please bring your machine – tomorrow.”  They would need our camera so that a customs official could watch hours upon hours of tapes.  Heads held low, Rob and I returned to the waiting cab and the realization that we had an hour of driving before reaching our hotel, and much less money than the fare.