Racing Report Leg #12
Title: “Oh My God, The Teletubbies Go To War” – Oswald at seeing Charla suiting up for being airlifted.
Date: December 14th (well for part of the episode)
Pit Stop: 12 hours (shoots myself)
Sunrise in Hong Kong 6:55am
Teams leave the Pit Stop at Trilho Da Taipa Pequena 2000 (an overlook on Taipa Island viewing the Island Of Macau) in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice – 2:15am
2. Charla & Mirna – 2:50am
3. Eric & Danielle – 3:06am*
4. Oswald & Danny – 4:37am**
*With arrival times now given for last week’s episode, Eric & Danielle truly did a great job on this episode, with them arriving at the beginning stage of the leg anywhere between 30 to 45 minutes after Dustin & Kandice. And having a total of an additional hour to wait in penalties, they may have actually completed the task in less time than any team even including the hour penalty.
**Oswald & Danny in interviews say they actually arrived 10 minutes after Eric & Danielle checked in on the Macau leg. But I seriously doubt it for several reasons (unless they received a significant penalty). They weren’t able to make the 4 am turbo jet (in fact had to take the 6am turbo jet), and they show them arriving in Hong Kong at Sunrise (which matches the sunrise time). So I don’t know how accurate any of their time information of the Finish Line was.
Money was provided on this leg, but damn no one said it. I could see I think 5 or 6 twenties and at least 1 single. But that is just a very, very rough guess.
Teams must travel over 7,500 miles to the South Pacific Island of Guam. When teams arrive in Guam they will drive themselves 9 miles to Anderson Air Force Base, where due to Base security they will have to choose a military escort who will drive them to an air traffic control tower. They must then climb the tower to get their next clue.
Teams make the return trip to Hong Kong on the Turbo Jet Ferry.
Dustin & Kandice take the 3am Ferry. Charla & Mirna arrive in time to take the Ferry, but it has too large of a line. (So it should take that long from Pit Stop to Ferry Terminal).
Charla & Mirna and Eric & Danielle take the 4am Ferry.
Dustin & Kandice arrive roughly at 3:55am and make their way directly to the airport.
Mirna makes fun of them for being unable to use the internet, while Charla corrects her and says she has never seen them use it
(which I do think is accurate, Michael?).
Charla & Mirna make use of cab’s cell phone to get airline information on their way to the airport.
All three leads teams get the same flight on Cathay Pacific (never heard of em.)
Apologies to apskip, but Air Wise isn’t working for me today, damnit.
What I do have from screen is that the three lead teams take a 9:05 flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo.
Then take a continental flight (CS7?) 5:15 departure from Narita, Tokyo arriving in Guam at 9:50pm the night of the 14th of December.
I will either have apskip laughing hysterically
at me and correct me, or hopefully Air Wise will be up soon, so I can update this.
Danny & Oswald take the 6am Ferry (I must assume that they either had travel problems getting to the 5am Ferry in time, or that it was full by the time they arrived and had to wait for the next one.
They arrive in Hong Kong at sunrise 6:55am.
They are unable to get the same Cathay Pacific Flight to Tokyo, but take a later flight leaving at 0:15 am. It arrives in Tokyo with a 45-minute connection to the same 5:15 Continental flight that the other teams take.
Teams arrive in Guam and get into the marked cars in the following order.
1. Oswald & Danny (enjoy the #1 position while it last, ops its over).
2. Charla & Mirna
3. Dustin & Kandice
4. Eric & Danielle Both of these teams go to the wrong parking lot (independently it looks like before realizes their mistake).
Teams arrive at the Anderson Air Force Base’s Visitor Center and hit an HOH
(he, he sorry Michael). I mean an Hours of Operation. Which in my experience is fairly accurate to the Air Force Bases I have been too.
It opens at 7am.
It is now the morning of the 15th.
Teams each grab military personnel who will escort them on base in their vehicle.
Teams arrive at the Air Traffic Control Tower in the following order.
1. Dustin& Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Charla & Mirna
4. Oswald & Danny
Teams race up the stairs (well some do) and at the top grab the next clue in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Oswald & Danny
4. Charla & Mirna (I do have to admit that many stairs is going to take Charla considerable more time than all but Marshall and Lance).
Detour: Care Package – Engine Care
Care Package: Teams make their way on foot to a “warehouse” (okay a canvassed area on a tarmac) to take place in an Air Force military Relief effort (Operation Christmas Drop). They must choose one of the packing stations and fill a box with 500 lbs. of essentials supplies to locals of neighboring Islands. Once teams have filled the box and sealed it up, they will make their way to and board a massive C-17 cargo plane (it really does look cool) to experience an official Air Force training exercise. They will climb to a set altitude and perform a combat drop (thus the diving and climbing maneuvers that simulate zero gravity), once the cargo has been dropped and the plane has landed the Load Master will hand them their next clue.
The Air Drop exercise takes roughly 30 minutes.
Engine Care: Teams make their way on foot to an awaiting B52 Bomber (Also very cool), where they will choose an engine pod and from the red plug through the sail to the wing flap and scour it clean. Once the senior Air Force Maintenance Officer is satisfied with their job he will hand them their next clue.
Dustin & Kandice, Eric & Danielle, and Oswald & Danny chose Engine Care.
Charla & Mirna choose Care Package.
Teams must follow the marked path to the Detour (a sign, not exactly the yellow break road).
Teams arrive at their detour in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Oswald & Danny
4. Charla & Mirna
Teams performing Engine Care must don protecting equipment (they look like Paddington).
Giant Shout Out to all tasks at the Air Force Base, I loved it. Often in the show jobs where teams get graded are done on a very, very easy scale. It looks like they made them work for it,
Also a nice shout out that the box Charla & Mirna made was actually sent on their Christmas Drop and thus why they received comments about putting it together with care, very nice.
Charla & Mirna board the C17 before any teams finish their detour (roughly at 8:08am to 8:18am – thanks to Chateau, who finally got some sun).
Teams finish the detour in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Oswald & Danny
4. Charla & Mirna
Oswald says it took them an hour to perform the task.
Teams are then directed to drive themselves to U.S. Navel Base-Guam….Phil is lying to us again. Shame on you Phil. :lies:
In reality teams must now drive to Asan Bay and the War of Pacific Historical Park for a general route marker. (hakushu8 who was great in looking over the Island for us).
According to Oswald & Danny teams had difficulty finding the location. I would assume that Dustin & Kandice performed this the best and this is where they managed to get separated from Eric & Danielle, since they left the base at roughly the same time.
Teams ARE now directed to drive 21 miles to U.S. Navel Base at Guam where a Navel escort will drive them to their next clue.
Teams arrive at the visitor center in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Charla & Mirna (follow a local)
4. Oswald & Danny (get lost eventually hire a cab to lead them)
Teams are driven to the next route marker a roadblock.
Roadblock: Search and Rescue
“Whose Ready to Search Far and Wide?”
A team member using a handheld G.P.S. device must navigate through the jungle (near or in Orote Point) and locate a one of four Search and Rescue Training Officers. The officer will then program new coordinates directing the team member to a new location (the landing zone). Once their they will radio in for a helicopter extraction, set off a smoke grenade and wait to be picked up where they will be returned by helicopter to their team mate. Once on the ground they will be handed their next clue.
One Hint: Don’t TOUCH any buttons!
Teams arrive at the roadblock in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice – Dustin performs the roadblock her 5th/ Kandice 6th
2. Eric & Danielle – Danielle performs the roadblock her 4th/ Eric 7th***
3. Charla & Mirna – Charla performs the roadblock her 6th/ Mirna 5th
4. Oswald & Danny – Oswald performs the roadblock his 5th/ Danny 4th
***Charla makes it sound like she does this task so that Mirna can do her last one on the final leg. If so then perhaps Eric didn’t do the rowing
task and that it was Danielle. Otherwise, why couldn’t Mirna also do 7.
Dustin & Kandice leave for the Pit Stop before Oswald & Danny arrive.
Dustin did consistently well on all aspects of this roadblock.
Danielle managed to find the Pilot location easy enough, but didn’t see him (she hasn’t yet found him, when Dustin is finding the landing zone). She also started touching buttons when searching for the landing zone (roughly 11:50am to 12:50pm thanks to Chateau), making it useless.
Charla had a great difficulty in not touching the buttons making her GPS not track. Though she arrived about 15 minutes supposedly after Danielle at the landing zone.
Oswald had no trouble using the G.P.S> but took about ten minutes to locate the officer. When they he finally does and the guy raises his water its like they are cruising in Griffith Park.
Oswald said it took him about 30 minutes for the roadblock.
Teams are directed to drive themselves 11 miles down the coast to Fort Soledad a 19th Century Fortification built to protect Spanish Galleys from Pirates, and now part of the Department of Parks and Recreation. It is the 12th Pit Stop of the race.
Teams arrive at the Pit Stop in the following order.
1. Dustin & Kandice – each win an all Terrain vehicle.
2. Eric & Danielle (who go to the wrong fort)
3. Charla & Mirna (who go North not South)
4. Oswald & Danny who are eliminated and like the BQ’s last year are eliminated solely on their performance without having to wait out the 30 minute marked for elimination penalty.
Peach cries.
Eric and Danielle go and to an evil dance of joy. :yikes
Some things to think about before Chateau gives us time (hint…..)
All the travel on bases will be fairly slow, the have a fairly low speed limit and I am sure the escort will follow it.
So a guess on arrival time.
Dustin & Kandice12:45 to 1:15pm
Eric & Danielle 2:00 to 2:30pm
Charla & Mirna 2:45pm
Oswald & Danny who supposedly arrive about 10 minutes after Charla & Mirna so 3:00pm. Gives times for Mat Chats and interviews before jumping on a flight some time later that day.
Come on Chateau show me how far off I am.