Low to the Ground, That’s My Technique
Dustin and Kandice left Fort Soledad, Guam in first place, and it seemed ilke they were ready to win the whole enchilada. Or pineapple. Or whatever they eat in Guam. But since the next clue said that they had to fly nearly four thousand miles to Honolulu, Hawaii, it meant that there was a chance for the other teams to catch up first, and that’s just what they did.
The beauty queens scored a flight that landed in Honolulu at 7:40am. Eric and Danielle were not able to get the same flight, as it had been fully booked, but they found out that a later flight made the same connection, and Charla and Mirna were able to do the same. In Tokyo, however, Charla and Mirna just disappeared – it seems that she noticed an earlier connection, and it turns out Dustin and Kandice figured it out too, since they managed to make it as well. This put Eric and Danielle some 40 minutes behind the other teams.
After arriving in Honolulu, Charla and Mirna scored the first helicopter flight to Lanai, which left at 9:00am. Somehow Eric and Danielle managed to beat the beauty queens for the 9:10 flight, and Dustin and Kandice settled for 9:20. When Eric and Danielle asked Charla and Mirna how they beat them, Charla insisted they were on the same flight (naturally they were not).
On Lanai, teams found the last Detour of the race. There, they had to choose between Under and Over.
In Under, the team needs to take a boat to an underwater cave and swim under the rocks where their next clue would be waiting for them.
In Over, the team has had to take a boat to an inlet where both teammates need to stand and paddle themselves on a paddleboard to a buoy to retrieve their next clue.
Charla and Mirna chose Over, but had problems, and when Eric and Danielle arrived to see the difficulties, they quickly chose Under. Charla and Mirna finished first, however, and found the next clue, telling them to head to the beached World War II Liberty Class cargo ship offshore. Once there, they have to find the next clue. As Eric and Danielle came to shore, Dustin and Kandice arrived for their own swim. They didn’t do well. Dustin had lots of problems with the current in the cave.
At the shipwreck, teams discovered that they had to paddle out to a buoy to find their next clue.
Only moments apart, Eric and Danielle were now in the lead, Dustin and Kandice had caught up and Charla and Mirna were bringing up the rear. The waves, while not massive, were really taking their toll, and all of them quickly realized just how big this task was. Eric and Danielle were the first to come back ashore, and they found out that the next stop was 2300 miles away – in San Francisco, their final destination city. There, they needed to find the Old Mint.
Dustin and Kandice arrived at the Old Mint first, but Eric and Danielle were right behind. The last task was to see how well one teammate knew the other one by asking questions, such as which other team is the least trustworthy, who has the best sense of humor, who is the most overrated, etc. The answer creates a combination which can be used to unlock a safe, which provides the final clue. If they failed, they could try again – but the maximum time was ten minutes in either case.
Danielle came up with the answers first, while Kandice couldn’t figure it out (so she had to wait the full ten minutes). Charla left only seconds later. That proved the difference as Eric and Danielle crossed the finish line first, followed by Dustin and Kandice, then Charla and Mirna.
- Eric and Danielle managed to pull it out after all.
- Dustin and Kandice
- Charla and Mirna
