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If I Were In Town, I'd Ask For Your Number (Part 2)

Dustin and Kandice left Warsaw, Poland, with such a massive lead that the last two teams - Eric and Danielle and Joe and Bill hadn't even arrived yet. That's impressive.

They find that the next leg is just 150 miles, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where over one million people were killed during the Nazi genocide. To get there, teams must take one of two charter buses, leaving at 1:00pm and 5:00pm. I don't even know if the last two teams can make it.

The first bus leaves, carrying Dustin and Kandice, Oswald and Danny and Uchenna and Joyce, just about the time that Eric and Danielle left for the next leg, and that's when the tension between Eric and Danielle finally boiled over. All because Danielle wanted some coffee.

It seems that Eric holds a little edge over Danielle, because she's never gone this far in the race - so he thinks that she shouldn't just be dropping their money at every opportunity, and has no problem telling her that. She doesn't agree. If this keeps up, they won't be around long.

In Auschwitz, the first teams reflect on the gravity of what happened, and then leave. I'm not for commercializing anything, but they didn't really do anything other than visit. With the speed of the race, they don't get to do much sightseeing, so that was sort of cool, but it was really somewhat uneventful.

On the return trip to Teatr im Julusza, teams encountered an Intersection, where they must join up with another team and perform actions as one until they are split apart again. Since Dustin and Kandice were lost, Uchenna and Joyce and Oswald and Danny made the easy decision to pair up and go for the Fast Forward.

In it, they had to count stairs in two separate towers. If they got the numbers right, they could proceed immediately to the Pit Stop. They did, and Oswald and Danny gave the prize, a trip to St. Lucia, to Uchenna and Joyce. I'm not sure why - they won a million dollars already. But they did.

Back in town, Dustin and Kandice realized that they'd have to wait four hours or so for the other bus to arrive before they could intersect with another team, and when they did, they got the one team they didn't want - Charla and Mirna.

The teams all had to head to the Detour, where they could choose between Eat It Up and Roll It Out.

In Eat It Up, the joined teams would make their way one and a half miles to an old market. Once there, each team member had to use traditional methods to make one three-inch length of Polish Kielbasa sausage. After finishing, the teams would be served eight feet of cooked Kielbasa. Once each person ate two feet of sausage, the teams would receive their next clue. In Roll It Out, the joined teams made their way one and a half miles to the J. Mazurek Bakery and properly roll out twenty bagels. When finished, they would make their way on foot one quarter of a mile to a nearby restaurant with a delivery of fresh bagels for the headwaiter.

Both joined teams chose Eat It Up, and fairly rapidly made it through the making of the sausage, then settled in to eat two feet (two feet!) of sausage. That's not as easy as it may sound, and some had problems. But all of them finished at about the same time. When the task was done, the teams were split again, and Joe and Bill rapidly looked for the next clue, since they had a 30-minute penalty headed their way for finishing last in the last leg.

They had a chance when Charla and Mirna couldn't get the parking break off, but the distance to the next clue was just 20 miles to the Pieskowa Skala Castle and a Roadblock.

The Roadblock was to suit up in armor and lead a horse down a road to the castle. Joe and Bill did beat Eric to the mat, but the penalty pushed them behind Eric, as he finished just a minute or so later.

• Oswald and Danny are really turning it on.
• Uchenna and Joyce may have found their mojo again.
• Dustin and Kandice are once again doing things right.
• Charla and Mirna might have some life in them as well.
• Eric and Danielle could still hang on - or be done.

This very painful leg finally came to an end. It was interesting to see that the last finishers in the prior leg overlapped the starters in this leg, but it was mostly sorted out by the end. Oswald and Danny and Uchenna and Joyce should still have a four-hour or so lead, but the next plane ride should probably sort that out.

I really suspect that Uchenna and Joyce won't be with us much longer, but this leg did surprise me, so perhaps I just have no idea what I'm talking about. I still like Oswald and Danny because they take things so casually, and that can serve you so well in a situation like this one.