i am going back to the begining of the amazing race to do write ups again.
11 teams leave new york city on a race around the world they are.
frank and margarita married but seperated.
paul and anmie recently engaged.
kim and lesslie single teachers
lenny and karyn dating thinking of marriage
dave and margeretta married grandparents
matt and ana married from the army
joe and bill life partners (team guido)
pat and brenda working mums
rob and brennan attorneys and best friends.
nancy and emily mother/daughter
kevin and drew fraternity brothers.
after phil the host explains the rules they run up and grab their first clue to fly to johenesburg south africa on either south african airways, aliltalia or swiss air (only south african still exist by that name). the first bit is figuring out they need to go to jfk which the clue doesn’t say some teams haev tourlbe with cabs and ring airlines ahead to find out what lands first (not a brilliant use of time) paul and anmiie save money taking the train instead of a cab but get off at the wrong stop and argue. joe and bill figure out south african will go direct they are on the first flight with frank/margarita rob/brennan lenny/karyn (i think) and pat/brenda. kim/lesslie and dave/mageretta get on the 2nd flight (its not clear which is which) the other 4 are on the third. south african goes direct the others via milan or zurich respecitiviely. the next clue sends them to ryan blake air to sign up for charter flights which has joe/bill frank/margarita and rob/brennan get a lead over the other first flight teams as they are split into two charters. their next stop is livingstone zambia where they can hire a driver for 50 dollars or drive themselves to victoria falls although the clue is cyrptic but isn’t hard to figure out. it is complicated finding the clue at the falls the view stuns kevin/drew. the next clue sends teams to batoka george. there is a fast foward in the canyon which rob/brennan and dave/mageretta go far because of the earlier time gap rob/brennan easily get it they go to songwe village the pitstop in the lead this negates the grandparents lead on the last flight sort of. kevin/drew argue over how to treat the locals. the next clue is the detour of going to a route marker in the george either “air” a zip line and a swing or “land” walk the whole way. several are scared especially paul who almsot quits whiich will be a running gag. the next clue sends them to the pitstop at least according to the edit but there was an unaired roadblcok involve cooking and eating an ostrich egg. there is no prize for first yet the language barrier is an issue for some teams especially matt/ana who fall behind despite getting to the detour before kevin/drew at the back of the pack sealing their fate.
- rob and brennan (fast forward)
- joe and bill
- frank and margarita
- lenny and karyn (who got no air time this episode)
- pat and brenda
- kim and lesslie (Despite thinking they were 7th)
- paul and anmie
- dave and margeretta (7th to arrive but did detour wrong this is changed in the next ep)
- kevin and drew (nice come back)
- nancy and emily (over the top celebration for staying in)
- matt and ana (eliminated)
next time fight in france and a monumnetal mistake.
matt and ana were a team who were done in by bad navigation not that memorable but at least not dislikeable.