The Amazing Race 14

7th Episode of the Amazing Race 14

The Realty TV Show Amazing Race find Tammy & Victor leaving the 6th Pit Stop of the race in first place, departing at 10:21AM with the first clue.

Teams must now fly nearly 2,000 miles to Pucket, Thailand, and using only a picture, must find a gorilla statue.  It is located at a zoo, unknown to the teams, where they will find their next clue.

All the teams were on the same flights, which took 14 hours.  Upon landing, it was a mad race for the teams to find a taxi cab.  Mel & Mike believe from asking their taxi cab driver, that the statue is at the beach.  But the other teams stopped and asked and were on course by having the taxi take them to the nearest zoo, where they found the statue with the clue in it’s mouth.

Teams must now get ready to take a walk on the wild side.  Teams will have their pictures taken with a tame tiger.  Then they take part in a typical performance in which they must lay down on the ground while an elephant walks and squats over them.  After successfully completing this task, they will be given their next clue.

Mark & Michael were the first team to finish this task.  Mel & Mike eventually made it to the zoo, and were the last team to finish this task.

Teams must now make their way to the oldest herb shop in Nguan Choon Tong.  Teams must search 99 herb drawers in search of their next clue.  They must keep guessing, while taking turns with other team members, until they find the right drawer.  Mark & Michael finish this task first again.

Detour:  Two forms of physical labor, a hundred barrels or 2 miles.  In 100 barrels, teams make their way to a harbor and work to prepare a fishing ship for 10 days at sea.  They have to fill 47 barrels with enough drinking water to last the trip, and move 53 empty fish barrels from the bottom deck to the roof, and arrange them properly for the journey.

In 2 miles, teams choose a ricksaw, with one team member sitting in the back, and the other one will pull the ricksaw and make their way 2 miles through the streets to a park where they will find their next clue.  Mark & Michael choose this task, and after using one of the laid out tire pumps on their ricksaw, decide to pack up all of the pumps inside of a box where it is not really visible any more to arriving team members.  They then instruct their taxi cab to lead the way to the park, while they take turns pulling each other by jogging the full distance in the heat.

The last clue directs them to the Pit Stop.  Teams must make their way through town to Wat Thep Nimit Temple.  Mark  & Michael finished first, but were given two 30 minute penalties for messing with the pumps, and for hiring the taxi cab to guide them through the streets (other teams simply used their maps to navigate their way to the park.).

Tammy & Victor arrived at the Pit Stop next, and were awarded first place.  Next came Jaime & Cara, making 2nd place.  Then Mark & Michael were checked in as 3rd place.  Margie & Luke 4th, but Margie fainted right after being checked in due to heat exhaustion, but Phil caught her from falling.  Kisha & Jen made it to 5th place.  Mel & Mike finished in last place, and were eliminated from the race.  This ended this week’s realty TV show of the Amazing Race.

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Espisode 4 

The Realty TV show Amazing Race 14 started out at the 3rd Pit Stop for the race around the world.  Mel & Mike (father and son) who were the first to arrive at 10:49AM, got to depart at 10:49PM.

All teams now must travel to Krasnoyarsk, deep in the heart of Syberia, then travel by taxi to the Hydroelectric Dam where they can find their next clue.

Amanda & Kris, the young competitive couple, were the 2nd team to depart at 10:53PM.  Kisha & Jen were 3rd to depart at 10:55PM.  Margie & Luke (mother and son) departed 4th at 11:06PM.  Mark & Michael (brothers/stuntmen) departed 5th at 11:07PM.  Christi & Jodi (Flight Attendants) were 6th to leave at 11:08PM, and were clever in asking the taxi to stop at an Internet Café on the way to the airport.  Since these blondes work in the travel business, they were able to log on and research possible flights.  They knew exactly how to route successfully through different destinations.  It turns out that these blondes are pretty and smart!  They booked their flight online before any other team.

Jamie & Cara depart 7th, at 11:29PM.  While Mark & Michael borrow the taxi cab drivers cellular telephone to call ahead to the airlines, the phone ends up dialing the other taxi where Jaime & Cara decide to pretend that they are airline reservationist and played a joke on the brothers!

Tammy & Victor (siblings/Lawyers) are the last team to depart at 1:30AM.  The teams end up travelling on one of four possible connecting flights landing at Krasnoyarsk Airport.  Each team needs to show a picture of the dam on the back of a bill to the taxi driver who says he knows where that place is and will drive them there.

Mark & Michael are leading in 1st place with Jennifer & Kisha, along with Jodi & Kristi, who all took the fastest connection flights.  Everybody else got stuck back at the other airport because they missed ultimately the ideal flight, which was the earlier flight the leading teams took.

But our three leading teams get to the dam at night and find out that it doesn’t open until 8:30Am, and have to wait it out.  When it finally opened, the clue said teams must now race to the church of Saint Innokenty.  They then must choose to stack or construct.  Stacking involves a huge pile of firewood.  Construct is where they find a workshop and materials to build a set of traditional wood shutters.

The brothers chose stacking, but it turned out that they were no good at it, because it fell down and knocked down the stack of wood behind it, which meant they had to re-stack that other fire wood stack also.  So the guys were discouraged and decided to screw it and leave this mess and go do the construct task.  But once there, they can’t find the proper house to install the shutters, (they are not very observant), so end up waiting for two more teams to arrive (who also had their fire wood stack fall down) and together all 3 teams work together.

On the next clue, the teams find a U-Turn (one of 2 U-Turns found along the race course).  A U-Turn appears at the end of a Detour.  A Team can use the power of the U-Turn to slow down another team and force them to backtrack and perform the other side of the Detour.  A new twist in this season’s TV realty show is that teams can now remain unknown about choosing to use a U-Turn (blind).

The new clue states that teams must take a taxi to a local amusement park, Bobrovy Log Park, and search for their next clue.  Kisha & Jen are now in first place as they run to catch a taxi, with the blondes only a couple of minutes behind them.

At the park, the teams find a Roadblock, where only one member of a team must ride a bobsled, with a speed of up to 55 MPH, completing a 3-mile course in just 4 minutes or less.  They must also look for 7 letters posted along the way.  Upon remembering those letters, they most unscramble the letters to spell a famous Russian playwright, CHEKHOV.

Back at the U-Turn, we find our mother and son team declaring Amanda & Kris.  It was actually the hearing impaired Luke who told his mother to do so, because after all, they were playing the game for a one million dollar prize!

To complete this last leg of the race and report in to Phil at the Pit Stop, teams must take a taxi to the Theater of Musical Comedy, Krasnoyarsk Theater.  Christie & Jodi finished in 1st place, as the winners of this leg of the race.  They both screamed and jumped for joy.  The blondes each won a brand new motorcycle, a cool 650 bike, which they both smiled about.

Kisha & Jen finished right behind them as team number 2.  They got lost trying to find the main entrance, and were attempting entry backstage.  But overall, it looks like girl power is dominating this week’s race, despite the physical labor involved in performing the stack and/or construct tasks!

Tammy & Victor went from last place (from last week’s show), to finishing this week’s leg as team number 3.  Margie & (evil) Luke finished in 4th place.  Jaime & Cara finished in 5th place.  Mel & Mike were team number 6.  Mark & Michael finished 7th.  Amanda & Kris, who were U-Turned by Luke, were the last team to arrive and have been eliminated from the race.  They said that as a couple, they were able to get to know each other much better now, while racing around the world, and each said that they will remain as a couple for life.

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