Monday, March 7, 2011

Amazing Race

Tokyo. Never been there, would like to go some day. I want to go to the tavern that has monkey waiters. :) But I digress.

Man oh man talk about the headaches of having a connecting flight. Would you take a flight that involved a connection instead of a direct flight to get a 15 minute lead on the opposition? It is tempting, and in AR 15 minutes can mean a lot. Based on my experience ... I would go for the direct flight but I never had the pressure of racing for a chuck of change. And it turned out, due to delays, the early flight was late so instead of a 15 minutes lead those who took it ended up with a larger deficit.

The car garage in Tokyo was interesting. Stig used one in Cheonan before. The kind where your car is put in an elevator and shuffled off to a parking spot. In Korea the attendant put your car in and out. It was funny to see the racers get their own car out.

Best line had to be either

"I have dirt in places dirt should not be."

or

When Zev? gets out of the car to ask for directions with only underwear and a t-shirt on and the commentary from him goes "If a guy gets out of his car in his underwear to ask directions in the States you run the other way. Here they don't even bat an eye."

Good episode.

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