The Amazing Race 14

Episode 8 of Amazing Race 14

The Realty TV Show Amazing Race starts out this week at the point of last episode’s Pit Stop, Phuket, Thailand, we find Tammy & Victor who were the first team to arrive at 9:27AM, departed at 9:27PM.  Victor & Tammy want to take it one leg at a time.  Leg 3 showed them how you can go from 1st place to last place so easily.  Jaime & Cara were the 2nd Team to depart @ 12:31AM.  They said the language barrier really frustrated them.

Teams must now fly over 400 miles to the city of Bangkok, Thailand.  When they land, they are to travel by taxi to the outskirts of town and find a boat yard.  They then must search the grounds for their next clue.  As it turns out, all five team were on the same flight to Bangkok.

On the way to the boat yard, Kisha & Jen, sisters, got lost in their taxi as the driver didn’t know where the boat yard was located.  At the boat yard, the clue was a Road Block:  One person must tap into their mechanical abilities and apply them to transportation, “the long tail boat.”  Teams must figure out how to join a rod to its propeller, which will only work if secured the right way.  When it works properly, they will receive their next clue.

Victor’s propeller did not work, and had to go back to fix it, making them now in last place for leaving the docks.  Margie & Luke, mother/son, were the first team to leave the docks.  It was Margie who figured out how to install the propeller properly.

The next clue says teams must now navigate their boats through the Bangkok canals, using the map and their clue, to search and locate the Peninsula Pier.  There, they will find their next clue.

Margie & Luke were the first team to arrive at the Peninsula, and found the next clue.  A Detour:  Teams have to choose between 2 very routine activities.  The choice is broken teeth or broken record.

In broken teeth, teams make their way to the street of happy smiles.  Once there, they must search through 50 sets of dentures to find good matches for five of the waiting patients.  When all their patients are smiling, they will receive their next clue.

In broken record, teams must make their way to a parking lot and choose a party taxi equipped with an onboard karaoke system.  Then, while riding along a 5 mile course, they join with a group of locals and sing repeatedly to a well know Thai pop video until they reach their destination.

We find that the brothers, Mark & Michael, left their bags at the boat docks, and had to pay 200 to be driven back to pick up their bags.  This is a major mistake for them.

Margie and Luke were the only team that chose to do broken teeth, and it paid off for them as they finished before all the other teams.  Their next clue was to make their way to the next Pit Stop, Phya Thai Palace.  The last team to check-in may be eliminated.

Margie & Luke became team number one at the Pit Stop, and won a free trip to Puerto Rico.  Kisha & Jen finished the karaoke task, but had no money for a taxi to the Pit Stop because they also left their bags and a fanny pack at the boat docks.  Again, this was a very costly mistake.  They finally found a taxi that agreed to take them to the Pit Stop for free.

Jaime & Cara arrived at the Pit Stop as Team number two.  Kisha & Jen arrived 3rd, but did not have their travel documents with them, so Phil told them they had to go back and get them before being checked in.  Victor & Tammy were 4th, but were bumped up to 3rd place because they did have their bags and travel documents with them.

Mark & Michael were the 4th team to arrive, but incurred a 2 hour penalty for using personal possessions to settle their taxi bills (for having to travel back to the boat docks for the bags was costly).  They did it twice, so had a total penalty of 4 hours to wait before being checked in by Phil.

Kisha & Jen then became the 4th team to arrive.  Mark & Michael were then checked in as the last team to arrive.  However, it was a non-elimination leg, and they are still in the race.  They are also given a Speed Bump to complete on the next leg, which is a task that only they must complete before continuing on the race course.  They said that they will just have to play it at the best of their abilities.

We have seen items left behind before in previous seasons of this Realty TV show, which proved to be costly for those teams.  Yet again this season, we see two teams leaving their valuables behind.  Why would anybody leave their stuff behind in a strange country, in an unknown location?  Are these teams starting to think they are celebrities now, just because a camera is following them around?  It is obvious to us viewers that these two teams, (Kisha & Jen, and Mark & Michael), just are not thinking straight and will not be winning this game for this season if they continue to not use common sense!

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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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2nd Episode of Amazing Race 14

In the opener of the second episode of the realty tv show Amazing Race 14, we find our teams waking up at their pit stop and racing off to the airport to catch the earliest flight to Munich, Germany.  From there, they drive themselves to a village where they need to find Ruhpolding cable car ride.  They take the car to the top of the mountain and find their next clue.

Here it becomes a bit tricky for the teams.  They must decide which member of their team will meet with an instructor who will paraglide them off the mountain to the ground, a 6,000 foot drop.  The other teammate must ride back down the cable car and await their arrival at the designated landing area.  Upon landing, the teams will receive their next clue.

But the Kisha and Jen team find themselves lost while driving to the cable car, and tempers start to flare.

Next, the first team is told by the instructor that they cannot fly now.  They can either wait or walk down.  They are told the wind is too strong, making it dangerous to paraglide.  The hike down the mountain will take 60 minutes.

Mel and Mike have a problem.  Mel, the father, has to wait for the wind to die down.  He has a groin injury so he can’t run down the mountain.  But all of the other teams decide to hike down the mountain.  But then the wind changed, and Mel said, ‘it was a mircle.” So he got to sky dive down and beat out several teams in the process.  But on the hike down the mountain, Linda (Steve & Linda) who was alone got lost and came down the wrong side of the mountain.  As she was crying, a van came by and offered to drive her to where she was to be (no mention of a penalty for this, but it turns out it didn’t matter).

The teams now must drive themselves 25 miles to Schonau Am Konigssee where they will find their next clue.

This next clue was a Detour, where teams must choose between two different tasks where success depends on precision.  The choices are riding a balancing dolly or the Austrian Folly (throw pies at each other’s face until one reveals a cherry filling).  This proved to be the most fun for the spectators, who laughed and laughed at the pie throwing task (or maybe the spectators were just acting silly because of all the beer they were drinking!).

After completing a road block, the teams must move on to a wood cutter where a man will stamp it with their next clue.  And it was the blondes (Christie & Jodi) who got lost finding the wood cutter in the dark.  Jodi said “we are acting like dumb blondes.”

The teams then must drive themselves to find Shloss Hellbrunn, which is the pit stop for that leg of the race.  The last team to arrive would be eliminated.

Tammy and Victor (brother & sister) arrive in first place, and each won a hybrid go-cart.  Mel and Mike, team 2, Amanda and Kris finished 3rd place.  Kisha and Jen argued again in the car, while stopping for directions.  We heard her say, “this is the most frustrating experience of my life and wearing me down mentally.

Christie and Jodi, are lovely blondes, barely finished in 9th place, and are still in the race.  This is the second time that they were both able to barely stay alive in the game.  Steve and Linda finished in last place, and were eliminated from the race (some what predicable for this realty tv show, although we were thinking they would be eliminated in the previous week).  Overall, we the viewers got to see some great sites and the beautiful country of Europe!

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