Archive for the ‘ The Amazing Race ’ Category

Season 14 of The Amazing Race has been over now for a week and with my Sunday’s from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. open I’m not sure what to do with myself. How are you coping?
If you need a TAR fix then look no further than High Trek Adventure! Over the weekend Chicagoans we treated when [...]

The final 3 (Tammy & Victor, Jaime & Cara and Margie & Luke) made their way from Beijing to Maui…the final leg of the race!
Tammy & Victor, Jaime & Cara got a little case of the H1N1 while trying to carry a traditional luau pig 200 yards along a sandy beach.
ROAD BLOCK - Surfboard fence
Teams [...]

This episode Margie turned her anger on Luke and vice versa. This is annoying. The good news is that I only have to watch one more episode with them. I do hope to meet them one day and I hope they are nice people and CBS is just making them out to be monsters.
DETOUR: Beijing [...]

Luke and Margie are poor sports! They spend more time talking about Jen and Kisha than actually playing the game. They are the first team since Rob and Amber that I am actually rooting against. I want anyone to win, but them. I hope I am wrong about them as people and that CBS is [...]

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster was enough…teams now off Guilin, China to see who’s not a “bitch.” Things got ugly is this episode. Luke and Jen tried to grab the the first clue from the clue box. In all fairness, Luke got to the clue box first (by literally less than [...]

Before I began I wanted to let you know that today (April 12th) is the Thai New Year. I celebrated! Did you? Now onto Bangkok, Thailand…
…team maneuvered on the Chao Phraya traditional boats, but before they could navigate teams had to assemble the propeller. Sounds easy. The Harvard attorney’s didn’t get it right. I guess [...]

The sixth leg of the race was one of the most emotional parts of the Luke and Cara become overwhelmed by the poverty in India. I agree, it is very sad to see animals and children eating garbage and running around in these terrible conditions
ROAD BLOCK
Care for Camel - a member must feed a camel [...]

Teams continued through the arctic in the 5th leg in a race around the world via the Trans-Siberian Railway!
In this episode we find out a lot:
1. Victor is sneakier than we thought. He momentarily formed an alliance with Margie & Luke to find the a DETOUR task, but then got directions on his own and [...]

Hey Austin, you think you got what it takes to beat Amazing Racers!?! Now here’s your chance when High Trek Adventure bring its unique urban adventure race to Austin. That right Jodi Wincheski, Kelly Crabb and Christy Cook will all be in attendance on Saturday, April 11 in the live music capital of the world.

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Teams left the land of Dracula and flying to Siberia where the must find the dam on the back of the 10 Russian Ruble bill. (Wow! Mark and Michael are really short! Especially when standing next to Kisha and Jen.)
DETOUR
Stack vs. Contruct (this task tested the wills of most of the teams)
Stack - Teams must [...]