After they departed the swan, BJ and Tyler held a slight lead over Eric and Jeremy, apparently because they took the correct path to the hotel where they needed to drop their cars. Eric and Jeremy had no idea whatosever. The best part was when Tyler asked the desk clerk to tell Eric and Jeremy that the hotel had no Internet access. Unfortunately for BJ and Tyler, Eric and Jeremy were able to book an earler flight to arrive in Alaska, and were able to slip out of the airport before BJ and Tyler could find out.
BJ and Tyler and Ray and Yolanda, however, found a later flight to Taipei, and they all made the same connection, catching the teams up once again. So it was off to ice fishing. The teams had to drill ten holes in the ice, then move their ice fishing shack into place over the holes. Once that was done, they moved on to a snowshoe challenge, where BJ and Tyler nearly blew it because they simply could not find their snowshoes (despite passing them several times). Finally they did, and navigated the course to make their way to Denver for the final leg.
In the end, Ray and Yolanda were well behind and it was BJ against Eric at a final roadblock, gathering nine flags, from countries visited on their trip. Once gathered from the field (which contained 285 flags total), they had to order the flags correctly to continue. While Eric was there first he couldn’t get them right, and BJ managed to get them done, with the hippies finishing first – a prediction first uttered here on March 14, 2006 in the third episode of the season in Moscow, Russia. Eric and Jeremy finished second, with Ray and Yolanda finishing third. A very satisfying season.
