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The Amazing Race 14, Episode 2 Recap

Posted on 02/23/2009 by RealityWanted in The Amazing Race

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By Arthur Perkins
 
This starts in Stechelberg with release from the pit stop as follows:
Margie/Luke 256am
Tammy/Victor 257am
Mark/Michael 259am
Mel/Michael 318am
Amanda/Kris 347am
Brad/Victoria 356am
Cara/Jaime 359am
Kisha/Jennifer 402am
Linda/Steve 404am
Christie/Jodi 412am
 
 
 The clue directs teams to get to Ruhpolding, Germany via flying from Zurich to Munich. Next flights is at 710am arriving 815am with a second flight at 845am (unverified) arriving about one hour later. All teams except Margie/Luke, Mark and Michael and Linda/Steve call ahead by borrowing cell phones from their taxi drivers and make the 710am flight. Mark/Michael and Linda/Steve are left behind for the second flight. At Munich airport teams drive east into the Bavarian countryside to get to Ruhpolding.

 At Ruhpolding teams find a ROADBLOCK “Who’s ready to fly like an eagle?” They take a cablecar to the Raushberg mountain and find the paragliding task. The paraglider must choose an instructor, then wait for good wind conditions to make the 6000 foot glide down, or they can elect to walk/run down the mountain at an estimated time of one hour. All doing this task except Mel, who did not think he could safely walk down, did elect to walk down when the winds were strong. Margie made it quickly and so did Victor. Everyone else did OK, except that Linda missed a sign and went off course. She was smart enough to get a local driver to take her back to the point where she left the course so there would be no penalty. Not surprisingly, Steve/Linda finished this in last place on this task. Mel finally did get the desired lower winds and he was able to paraglide and get a middle positions among the teams.

 Teams now drive 25 miles south to Schonau au Konigsee, a quaint Bavarian village on the beautiful Konigsee. There they face a DETOUR of Balancing Dolly or Austrian Folly. Balancing Dolly is simply a two mile obstacle course that has to be done by each team member on a Segway electric scooter. Austrian Folly requires locating a Bavarian beer tent with an oom-pah brass band and plenty of drinkers dressed as if it’s summer when it is really November. Rows of many pies are there, with the winning ones having a cherry filling. No team seems to have trouble with this. Teams discover that by throwing pies into the face of their partner until the cherry filling is located. Luke wanted to do the Segway option and is highly frustrated with their apparent difficulty, but it does not take long at an estimated less than 10 seconds per pie to locate the winners. The mess this creates on the clothes and face of the contestants is very funny. The onlookers were having a wonderful time laughing at the human folly demonstrated. There were some very fine pies wasted in this exercise. Maybe they should have had each team member eat a whole pie instead.

 After the DETOUR teams must find the Holzsager mechanical Tyrolean woodcutters, which is a cute exhibit of local culture. A think slice of wood is stamped with the final clue, which says drive to Hellbrunn Palace in Salzburg Austria( which is maybe 25 miles away) for the pit stop. This does not cause any significant dislocations except that Kisha/Jen continue navigational errors that went on all day and Christie/Jodi were confused about what type of woodcutter they were looking for and where it was. The last two teams are a newly-competitive Linda/Steve and Christie/Jodi who have dropped down during another mistake-filled day. Jodi/Christie get there first, so Steve/Linda are eliminated after some great catch-up efforts. The final finish order for episode 2 is:

1.Tammy/Victor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2.Mark/Michael                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         3.Amanda/Kris                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4.Margie/Luke                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5.Brad/Victoria                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6.Cara/Jaime                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       7.Kisha/Jen                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8.Mel/Michael                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               9.Christie/Jodi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10.Linda/Steve                      

(Image courtesy of CBS)

Find additional Amazing Race 14 links on Sirlinksalot.net                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             


  


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