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Tokyo. Never been there, would like to go some day. I want to go to the tavern that has monkey waiters. :) But I digress.

Man oh man talk about the headaches of having a connecting flight. Would you take a flight that involved a connection instead of a direct flight to get a 15 minute lead on the opposition? It is tempting, and in AR 15 minutes can mean a lot. Based on my experience ... I would go for the direct flight but I never had the pressure of racing for a chuck of change. And it turned out, due to delays, the early flight was late so instead of a 15 minutes lead those who took it ended up with a larger deficit.

The car garage in Tokyo was interesting. Stig used one in Cheonan before. The kind where your car is put in an elevator and shuffled off to a parking spot. In Korea the attendant put your car in and out. It was funny to see the racers get their own car out.

Best line had to be either

"I have dirt in places dirt should not be."

or

When Zev? gets out of the car to ask for directions with only underwear and a t-shirt on and the commentary from him goes "If a guy gets out of his car in his underwear to ask directions in the States you run the other way. Here they don't even bat an eye."

Good episode.

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If Kent were my partner I would have to kill him. Don't know how Vixen can put up with the whiny demanding prat.

Vixen ... get me this.

Vixen ... we need to hurry.

And the creepiest ... Vixen get me some children.

Interesting couple but my interest usually ends when he opens his mouth. Reminds me of being back in Korea.

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The finale is done. The winner is crowned. Things that stood out.

The contestants were PUSHIER than Koreans getting off the KAL flight in La. :) Gotta use those elbows like an adjumma!

Poor Jill and Thomas had the worst taxi driver in LA. He couldn't understand English that well and kept telling them he had internet when all he had was a GPS. He really hosed them over. While they wouldn't have won they would have been second.

Mind you I also find it hard to believe the contestants couldn't answer at least 2 of the 3 questions without the internet. Seriously, they didn't know don Quixote or The 7 Year itch?!?!? Then again, maybe I am just showing my age. ;)

All in all it was a good season.

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Just watched the latest episode of Amazing Race that took place in South Korea. It was a good episode. I liked the challenges they had to do. Speed Skating and ginseng are definitely South Korean things to experience.

Brook and Claire are idiots. One of them doesn't know how to skate so they choose to do the speed skating challenge. What morons. Jill and Thomas weren't much better. :)

It was hilarious to watch Brooke and Claire in the taxi after the speed skating. The taxi driver starts telling them how beautiful they are and asking if they are married. The only thing missing was him asking her to marry him. The camera must have had him on his best behaviour. :) Mind you Brooke did have to give him a kiss when they left the taxi, the 9th kiss she had to give a Korean man. The taxi driver then started making "woo woo woo" sounds.

Then you had Thomas getting on Jill's case for asking an old person if they spoke English. "You can't ask old people." What an asshat.

All in all it was a fun episode to watch.