This collection of entries is from November 20, 2002.
"I'm Supposed to Be Indebted to Her for the Rest of the Race?"
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Teams start from the Riad Catalina in Marrakesh. The teams must fly to Munich, Germany (this sounds like they're going backwards?) and make their way to a statue called Friedensengel and find a puppet (Kasperle) at a puppet show for the next clue. (They only get $1 for this leg of the race!) The teams have trouble getting flights from Marrakesh to Munich and try a few alternate routes (like Marrakesh-Casablanca-Paris-Munich). Turns out that Kasperle is from Austria. The teams must take a train 60 miles to Innsbruck and locate Annensäule - the Pillar of St. Anna near the Olympic Village. Once there, it's a Detour: "Sled" or "Skate". It's a choice of two Olympic events: In "Sled", teams go to an Olympic bobsled track and ride along with a team of bobsledders That would be my personal pick). In "Skate", teams go to an Olympic ice rink and run a relay with a team of Olympic skaters. Flo & Zach feel that they are far behind and decide to go after the Fast Forward - find a surfer surfing a standing wave in the Eisbach River. The get the Fast Forward and now go to Fussen, Germany, the seventh Pit Stop of the race - a meadow below the Neuschwanstein Castle. The rest of the teams, after the Detour, now have to go across town to ride the Gondola Nordkette to the Seegrube Station. The teams wait a LONG time for taxis to show up to take them to the gondola. Andre and Damon are a DAY behind. At the Seegrube Station teams get a Roadblock: The person chosen "should welcome a chance to dangle for a while" They go further up on a cable car (gondola), don safety gear, and descend 250 feet to the ground on a rescue cable to get the next clue. The teams take the gondola back down and drive themselves to Fussen. Flo and Zach get to the Pit Stop first and win a Kodak EasyShare digital camera "that can be enjoyed after the race". Derek accidentally leaves the clue at the ticket counter and Teri tells him where he left it. Later, Teri expected the twins to try to help them because they helped them find their missing clue. Meanwhile, in Innsbruck, the train carrying Andre & Damon pulls into the station... and pulls out again with them as they fell asleep and missed their stop! The teams struggle to figure out how to drive to Fussen. Arguments ensue between team members. Andre & Damon wake up and find out that they have to go to Salzburg to get a train back. Ken & Gerrard drive for quite a while with a flat tire. Derek & Drew are Team #2 to get to the Pit Stop, John Vito and Jill are Team #3. Ken & Gerrard get their tire changed. Teri & Ian are Team #4. Ken & Gerrard are shocked to find out they're Team #5. Andre and Damon get to the Annensäule, and don't get a Detour - instead, they are instructed to go to Fussen. Andre and Damon are eliminated from the race. Their last act - give the $1 back to Phil (they didn't need it!) Next week: Deception, Zürich and falling pants.
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Watched ABC World News Tonight and saw this story: From Peter Jenning's Journal on ABCNews.com:
"We are going to take a closer look tonight at Jesus and the SUV. Executives from the nation's leading carmakers are meeting today with a group of evangelical Christians who are trying to make the fuel economy of cars a religious as well as environmental issue. The group plans to roll out a TV campaign arguing that gas-guzzling SUVs are antithetical to Christian moral teachings, which encourage human beings to protect each other and the earth. The tagline for the ads reads: "What Would Jesus Drive?" "
This is really late, but Survivor 6 should now be shooting in the Amazon. Survivor Maps has the details on the site, including photos, maps and other information (they have had great detail on each of the Survivor sites, before shooting even begins).
"The Production Camp will be located at the posh Ariau Towers Resort reserved October 22 through December 22. "
"Sources say the Tribal Camps will be located on the Rio Negro's Praia Grande (Great Beach). Rumors say Tribal Council will be deep in the Amazonia rain forest on the Rio Acajatuba near Acajatube Village."
The Smoking Gun has documentation that shows that Clay Jordan piled up debts totaling $420,250, according to a bankruptcy case that was closed out in January, just months before he shipped off to Thailand.
How cool is this... if you read a blog regularly, and you want to know when it gets updated (NOTE: The Blogger must be pinging weblogs.com for this to work), you can use BlogToaster to get a Microsoft Instant Message to let you know when the blog gets updated! (And it really works!)
How strange is it when an a guy from England, working for a search firm in Manhattan, calls me - a guy outside Chicago - for a contract job in Des Moines, Iowa? At least my paper is circulating, but this is a stretch. Why can't I work somewhere around Chicago??? (Of course, with the guy being from England, he doesn't really know how "close" places are to each other in the US. I also love it when people from England end their conversations with "Cheers!")
