A woo-hoo news alert: Navigeaters has joined Next New Networks — of Auto-Tune the News and Key of Awesome fame — and will have episodes airing on their Hungry Nation channel not-yet-launched travel channel every other Thursday! Check out our intro video above if you’d like to hear the story of our blog’s inception or just want to see us wearing matching pajamas with built-in butt flaps.

We’ll still be posting all of our videos on this here blog (along with any text and photos posts we do), as well as on our shiny new YouTube page, but with the NNN partnership, you might also be able to catch us on one of their many other distribution channels, like iTunes, Hulu, TiVo, Amazon, and a bunch more. So basically, we’re gonna be all up in your piece.

Apologies in advance to your piece.

Allow us to take a brief moment to welcome our shiny new readers, who seem to have come by way of Tumblr’s shout-out or our Diane Sawyer interview. So, welcome! We are so tickled that you’re joining us on this gastronomical adventure. Feel free to snoop around: You can learn about our quest, check out our meal map, follow us on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook. Maybe you just wanna watch a grown man gag on a lamb’s eyeball? Fine. Or witness our messy attempt to eat soup with our hands? OK then. If you like what you see, please recommend us on Tumblr!

Also, we love backseat drivers who tell us where to go. So if you have a restaurant or cuisine suggestion, are knowledgeable about a certain dish and want to join us on a gastro-journey, or know a local grandmother who can whip up a meal from the old country (and doesn’t mind us crashing her dinner), don’t be afraid to pipe up. You can email us at navigeaters@gmail.com, or leave your suggestions and questions here.

Now has everyone used the bathroom? Because we’re not stopping till we get to Ecuador. Buckle up, let’s go!