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I was thinking of a route that goes in alphabetical order, and without crossing the international date-line.

Leg 1 - Austin, Texas (starting line) - Bremen, Germany
Leg 2 - Chisinau, Moldova
Leg 3 - Davos, Switzerland
Leg 4 - Edinburgh, UK
Leg 5 - Fuzhou, China
Leg 6 - (by train to) Guangzhou, China
Leg 7 - Hakodate, Japan
Leg 8 - Incheon, South Korea - (drive to Busan, and take a ferry to) Jeju Island, South Korea
Leg 9 - (fly to Darwin and drive to) Kakadu, Australia
Leg 10 - Lusaka, Zambia
Leg 11 - Mbababe, Swaziland
Leg 12 - (Drive or take a bus to Johannesburg, and fly to) Nashville, Tennessee (finish line)
Australia to Zambia is the next "Brazil to Russia".  :lol:
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*Roadblock One member has to climb the entire set of stairs to the top to retrieve clue.
*Detour Climb or Cycle. Climb teams descend the cliff to their clue while Cycle teams had to bike the 1km course to get their clue


Climbing those few thousand steps would make the task the most physically grueling ever for those unlucky souls.  :tantrum And after that they will have to engage in more physical climbing/cycling. 

« Last Edit: December 01, 2012, 10:28:34 AM by Genius »


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Hi guys!

I am going to ask that if you MUST use a map, that you resize it to no more than 640 X 480, okay? We need all pages loading smoothly and quickly for everyone, and a lot of large maps in the wishlist thread are going to slow things down.

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Anyway, since I made a ABC route just now, how about a ZYX route as well? :lol:



Leg 1 - Zelienople, PA (starting line, and drive to Pittsburg) - Yokohama, Japan
Leg 2 - Xiamen, China
Leg 3 - (train to) Wuhan, China
Leg 4 - Vladivostok, Russia
Leg 5 - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Leg 6 - Tehran, Iran Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Leg 7 - Serekunda, The Gambia
Leg 8 - Riga, Latvia
Leg 9 - Quimper, France - (drive/train/bus to) Plourazel and the Pointe de Corsen (westernmost point on continental France)
Leg 10 - Oviedo, Spain - (drive/train/bus to) Nava, Spain
Leg 11 - Monaco
Leg 12 - (fly to NYC) Long Island, with the finish line in Long Beach, New York

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Here is a Europe-free route:

1. Los Angeles (USA) - Haikou (China)
2. Haikou (China) - Harbin (China)
3. Harbin (China) - Vladivostok (Russia)
4. Vladivostok (Russia) - Jeju (South Korea)
5. Jeju (South Korea) - Busan (South Korea)
6. Busan (South Korea) - Doha (Qatar)
7. Doha (Qatar) - Durban (South Africa)
8. Durban (South Africa) - Port Elizabeth (South Africa)
9. Port Elizabeth (South Africa) - Luanda (Angola)
10. Luanda (Angola) - Manaus (Brazil)
11. Manaus (Brazil) - Cartagena (Columbia)
12. Cartagena (Columbia) - Miami (USA)


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Here's a nice Europe-free route:

Leg 1 (United States --> Morocco) Washington D.C. to Tangier
Leg 2 (Morocco) Marrakech desert
Leg 3 (Morocco --> Algeria) Algierian snowy mountains
Leg 4 (Algeria) Algiers economic trade tasks
Leg 5 (Algeria --> Qatar) Doha with Dhow Harbour transportation tasks
Leg 6 (Qatar --> Nepal) Kathmandu and surrounding areas
Leg 7 (Nepal --> Burma) Naypyidaw
Leg 8 (Burma --> Japan) Greater Tokyo area (village life)
Leg 9 (Japan) high-speed rail to Sapporo
Leg 10 (Japan --> South Korea) Busan
Leg 11 (South Korea) more Busan :lol:
Leg 12 (South Korea --> United States) END CITY: San Diego, California
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Here's a 'below the equator' route. Pretty interesting; would love to see what a map of this would look like  :lol:

1. Miami (USA) - Brasilia (Brazil)
2. Brasilia (Brazil) - Natal (Brazil)
3. Natal (Brazil) - Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)
4. Sierra Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) - Dunedin (New Zealand)
5. Dunedin (New Zealand) - Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)
6. Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) - Nadi (Fiji)
7. More Fiji!!!!!, we came all this way!
8. Fiji - Luanda (Angola)
9. Rural Angola
10. Luanda (Angola) - Windhoek (Namibia)
11. Windhoek (Namibia) - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
12. Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Miami (USA)

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Here is a route from me:

Leg 1: USA (Los Angeles) - Canada (Toronto)

Los Angeles (Los Angeles International Airport) to Toronto, Canada   (Toronto Pearson International Airport)
Toronto (Yonge-Dundas Square)
Toronto (CN Tower)
Toronto (Scarborough Bluffs)
Toronto (House of Flags & Banners)
Toronto (Casa Loma)
*At Yonge-Dundas Square teams had to search the screens for their next clue (CN Tower with a flag background)
*Roadblock One member has to climb the entire set of stairs to the top to retrieve clue.
*Detour Climb or Cycle. Climb teams descend the cliff to their clue while Cycle teams had to bike the 1km course to get their clue
*At the House of Flags teams have to identify all 13 provincial and territory flags to get their next clue.

sry but that would be a trainwreck leg  :(

Why!?

theres more to canada than climbing a staircase

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Another route:

Leg 1: USA (Boston) -> Spain (Barcelona) (Pit Stop: Nou Camp)
Leg 2: Spain (Barcelona) (Pit Stop: Parc Natural del Montseny)
Leg 3: Spain -> Albania (Tirana) (Pit Stop: Tirana Castle)
Leg 4: Albania (Tirana) (Pit Stop: Skandarbeg Square)
Leg 5: Albania -> Cameroon (Douala) (Pit Stop: La Pagode)
Leg 6: Cameroon -> Swaziland (Mbabane) (Pit Stop: Songimvelo Nature Reserve)
Leg 7: Swaziland -> Bahrain (Manama) (Pit Stop: Manama Fort)
Leg 8: Bahrain (Manama) (Pit Stop: Pearl Roundabout)
Leg 9: Bahrain -> Laos (Vientiane) (Pit Stop: Patuxai Gate)
Leg 10: Laos (Vientiane) (Pit Stop: Temple of the Emerald Buddha)
Leg 11: Laos -> Tahiti (Papeete) (Pit Stop: Paofai Temple)
Leg 12: Tahiti -> USA (San Diego) (Finish Line: Balboa Park)

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Amazing Race Canada wishlist route:

Leg 1: Yukon (Whitehorse)
Leg 2: Yukon - British Columbia (Vancouver)
Leg 3: British Columbia - Alberta (Banff)
Leg 4: Alberta (Calgary)
Leg 5: Alberta - Saskatchewan (Regina)
Leg 6: Saskachewan - Ontario (Toronto)
Leg 7: Ontario (Ottawa)
Leg 8: Ontario - Quebec (Québec City)
Leg 9: Quebec (Percé)
Leg 10: Quebec - Nova Scotia (Halifax & Cape Breton)
Leg 11: Nova Scotia - Newfoundland (St-John's & Gros Morne Fjord)
Leg 12: Newfoundland - Quebec (Kuujjuaq) - Nunavut (Iqualuit)


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Amazing Race Canada wishlist route:

Leg 1: Yukon (Whitehorse)
Leg 2: Yukon - British Columbia (Vancouver)
Leg 3: British Columbia - Alberta (Banff)
Leg 4: Alberta (Calgary)
Leg 5: Alberta - Saskatchewan (Regina)
Leg 6: Saskachewan - Ontario (Windsor)
Leg 7: Ontario (Ottawa)
Leg 8: Ontario - Quebec (Québec City)
Leg 9: Quebec (Percé)
Leg 10: Quebec - Nova Scotia (Halifax & Cape Breton)
Leg 11: Nova Scotia - Newfoundland (St-John's & Gros Morne Fjord)
Leg 12: Newfoundland - Quebec (Kuujjuaq) - Nunavut (Iqualuit)

Fixed. :)

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 :cmastree Here's my long, Christmas-y wishlist for a nicer TAR Canada route: :cmastree

Leg 1 (Canada --> Bahamas) / Toronto [Leslie Street Spit] to Nassau
ROADBLOCK IDEA at Paradise Island Lagoon: paddle using your hands on a life preserver to the bridge where you must attach rappel devices onto your waist and rappel yourself up to get your clue on the arch and rappel back down onto your lifebuoy and row to the starting point of the RB. Anytime you fall off, you must swim back to the side you were previously on.

Leg 2 (Bahamas --> Cuba) / to Havana
ROADBLOCK IDEA at Plaza de la Revolucion: Graffiti art RB

Leg 3 (Cuba --> Italy) / to Rome
ROUTE INFO IDEA at Ara Pacis: (When in Rome... :lol:) Transport 100 small plaster tiles using a stallion-drawn mini-cart through the crazy streets of Rome up the Spanish Steps to receive your next clue.
ROADBLOCK IDEA at Spanish Steps: Using the plaster tiles from the previous task, one team member has to complete a ground mosaic by using the tiles like puzzle pieces. Any tiles missing will need to be brought to the Roadblock location on foot by going back to Ara Pacis and collecting the tiles needed to complete the mosaic. Once approved, teams will get their clue.

Leg 4 (Italy) / train to Gaiole in Chianti, Tuscany for vineyard tasks and Barbischio castle wedding reception setup task

Leg 5 (Italy --> Hungary) / to Budapest and Viségrad
ROUTE INFO IDEA: Teams must bid for their next clue at an auctionhouse against other teams and local "bidders".

Leg 6 (Hungary --> Slovakia) / train to Kosiçe and famous ice caves as the Pit Stop

Leg 7 (Slovakia --> Qatar) / to Doha [SUPERLEG ANYONE? :xmas49]
DETOUR IDEA at Dhow Harbour: [Stack It or Make It] "Stack It" had teams direct a dhow driver to the nearby flour factory and stack 100 flour bags onto the dhow (which can slow the dhow down) and trasnport them to a shoreside shack on the northwest coastline to receive their clue. In Make It, teams had to direct their dhow driver to an island where teams must complete mending 5 "oil" umbrellas by painting them a crude oil color. After painting, they must transport the umbrellas to a nearby enrichment centre to get their next clue.

Leg 8 (Qatar --> China) / to Lhasa, Tibet Region with numerous yak agriculture tasks in villages

Leg 9 (China) / to Beijing :groan:... just for a "pin"ful acupuncture session :cmas27 and then bus to Harbin for ice sculpture task
DETOUR IDEA at a local bakery: [Fold or Deliver] "Fold" made teams properly create 100 zongzis (25 each filled with either pork, chicken, bean paste, or Chinese five sauce) to get their clue. In Deliver, teams must deliver take-out boxes to 3 different addresses (all written in Mandarin Chinese) by riding basket-storage bikes. After delivering them and returning to the bakery, teams need to have receipts for proof of delivery to get their clue.

Leg 10 (China --> United States) / to San Francisco and Alcatraz Island
ROADBLOCK IDEA on Alcatraz Island: Team members must figure out the three cells Al Capone stayed in using the cell # history hidden somewhere in the jail cells in a mysterious diary. They must go to the lighthouse and open a safe by dialing the last number of each cell number in chronological order by year. Once unlocking the safe, the next clue will be revealed.
ROUTE INFO IDEA at Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory: Eat through as many fortune cookies for a fortune containing the information of the next Pit Stop.

Leg 11 FINAL LEG (United States --> Canada) / to Calgary, Alberta and Banff National Park as Finish Line.
« Last Edit: December 03, 2012, 11:27:38 PM by RachelLeVega »
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I would love to see:
1. An Asia free route.
2. Another startcity then Los Angeles.
3. Stronger Female Teams.
4. At least two new countries on a Race season.

Love The Amazing Race, The Apprentice and Survivor.

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WILL IT WILL PROMBLEM NOT ANOTHER PLACE BUT LA BECAUSE PHIL FEMALIY LEAVE THERE

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I wish that they could stop making the 2/3/4 legs cycles in South America at the beginning of the race. The race visited that continent 9 times (seasons 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18 & 20) and only once was it featured at the end (TAR18 - TAR19 could count since Panama is pretty near from SA), and it was for only one leg. Those are two (Rio & Panama that is) of my favourite legs in that continent because it actually felt different then the others: there were only 4 teams left.
Making those South American cycles always at the beginning of the race always feel repetitive (mainly in the last 2/3 cycles) because there's always a whole bunch of teams to follow. Never did we get six or five teams left racing in that continent, and those legs never got that intensity when teams are closer to the finish line. (Not saying that they are all boring, the Paraguay leg was probably the best one of TAR20)
Just my 2¢ :cmas27

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I have an idea for a summer or winter season (when TAR is on hiatis)

6-8 hopeful teams compete for the final spot in the next regular season in a 6 leg mini season of the race.

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Here's a wishlist for TAR23-

Starting Line: Jeld-Wen Field, Portland, Oregon, USA
              -Public transit to PDX Airport
Leg 1: San Jose, Costa Rica to Quepos
Leg 2: Quepos to Lyon, France
Leg 3: Lyon to Cannes
Leg 4: Cannes to Monaco to Genoa, Italy
Leg 5: Genoa to Colombo, Sri Lanka to Kandy
Leg 6: Kandy to Galle
Leg 7: Galle to Chiang Mai, Thailand
Leg 8: Chiang Mai to Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China to Wulingyuan
Leg 9: Wulingyuan to Fenghuang County
Leg 10: Fenghuang County to Changsha to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Leg 11: Port Moresby to Manila, Philippines to Laoag
Leg 12: Laoag to Manila to Los Angeles, California, United States
Finish Line: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

-4 Continents, 9 Countries (new countries: Monaco and Papua New Guinea)   

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An Asia free route!!!!!

Starting Line: Ancient Spanish Monastery 

1. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale(USA) - Medellin(Columbia)
2. Medellin(Columbia) - Cartagena(Columbia)
3. Cartagena(Columbia) - Brasilia(Brazil) 
4. Brasilia(Brazil) - Dunedin(New Zealand)
5. Dunedin(New Zealand) - Hobart(Australia)
6. Hobart(Australia) - Durban(South Africa)
7. Durban(South Africa) - Port Elizabeth(South Africa)
8. Port Elizabeth(South Africa) - Luanda(Angola) 
9. Luanda(Angola) - Madrid(Spain)
10. Madrid(Spain) - Segovia(Spain)
11. Segovia(Spain) - Algiers(Algeria)
12. Algiers(Algeria) - Montreal(Canada) - Chicago(USA)

Finish Line: Chicago Botanic Garden

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My Season 23 route:

1. USA - Iceland (Reykjavik)
2. Iceland - Morocco (Casablanca)
3. Morocco (Fez)
4. Morocco - Italy (Rome)
5. Italy - Poland (Warsaw)
6. Poland (anywhere in the Tatra Mountains)
7. Poland - Sri Lanka (Colombo)
8. Sri Lanka - South Korea (Busan)
9. South Korea - Philippines (Cebu City)
10. Philippines - Guatemala (Guatemala City)
11. Guatemala (Yaxha-Nakum-Naranjo National Park)
12. Guatemala - USA (Houston)

4 Continents, 9 Countries, 2 legs in Morocco, Poland, and Guatemala (new country), and visits to many countries that have only been visited once (Iceland, Poland, Sri Lanka, Philippines).

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My Season 23 route:

1. USA - Iceland (Reykjavik)
2. Iceland - Morocco (Casablanca)
3. Morocco (Fez)
4. Morocco - Italy (Rome)
5. Italy - Poland (Warsaw)
6. Poland (anywhere in the Tatra Mountains)
7. Poland - Sri Lanka (Colombo)
8. Sri Lanka - South Korea (Busan)
9. South Korea - Philippines (Cebu City)
10. Philippines - Guatemala (Guatemala City)
11. Guatemala (Yaxha-Nakum-Naranjo National Park)
12. Guatemala - USA (Houston)

4 Continents, 9 Countries, 2 legs in Morocco, Poland, and Guatemala (new country), and visits to many countries that have only been visited once (Iceland, Poland, Sri Lanka, Philippines).

Having been to Houston for a week to help my medically-needy uncle, there's nothing really to do there except visiting the museum district. The Hous. space control center is privately owned by the government. The nearest "interesting" location would be the Texas gulf which is about a 2 - 3 hour drive.
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TEAM CASTING MUSTS:
1. We have seen Single Moms (go team Bama! :cmas19)... but what about SINGLE DADS! :cmas22
2. Team with cerebral disabilities like dyslexia - father & daughter dyslexia would be pretty interesting
3. A pair of fashion designers with Shana & Jennifer instincts, I want another disrespectful team to hate, lol
4. A pair of obese parents (chubbier than Steve & Debra) :cmas51
5. Floridian hairdressers with Latina or Latino heritage... Aura spray time!!! :cmas22
6. Don't care who, but I want a teammate on the race named Ashley :cmaslol
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Pls show us Greece, Santorini Island!! And Petra in Jordan!!  :cmas13
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Here's another-

Starting Point: Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
Leg 1: SFO Airport to Brisbane, Queensland (Pit Stop: The Lookout at Mount Coot-tha)
Leg 2: Brisbane to Gold Coast to Southport (Pit Stop: The Endeavor replica at Sea World)
Leg 3: Gold Coast to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Pit Stop: Kuala Lumpur Civic Center Park)
Leg 4: Kuala Lumpur to New Delhi, India (Pit Stop: The India Gate)
Leg 5: New Delhi to Doha, Qatar (Pit Stop: desert campsite near Masaieed)
Leg 6: Qatar to Moscow, Russia (Pit Stop: Gorky Park)
Leg 7: Moscow to Samara Oblast to Syzran (Pit Stop: Syzran Kremlin)
Leg 8: Syzran to Munich, Germany to Bad Reichenhall to Salzburg, Austria (Pit Stop: Schloss Hellbrunn)
Leg 9: Salzburg to Luqa, Malta (Pit Stop: St Peter's Pool at Marsaxlokk Bay)
Leg 10: Malta to Gatwick Airport, England to Isle of Wight to Portsmouth (Pit Stop: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard)
Leg 11: Portsmouth to London (Pit Stop: Keats House in Hampstead)
Leg 12: London to Keflavik, Iceland to Gullfoss to Reykjavik (Pit Stop: Hallgrimskirkja)
Leg 13: Reykjavik to Boston, Massachusetts, USA to Cape Cod (Finish Line: Cape Cod National Seashore, Atwood-Higgins House)

-4 Continents, 11 Countries (new countries: Qatar and Malta)
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I have nothing to do, so I make this route:

Leg 1: United States (Miami, FL) > Portugal (Braga)
Leg 2: Portugal (Sintra)
Leg 3: Portugal > Hungary (Budapest)
Leg 4: Hungary > Greece (Heraklion, Crete)
Leg 5: Greece > Mali (Bamako)
Leg 6: Mali (Timbuktu)
Leg 7: Mali > Pakistan (Karachi)
Leg 8: Pakistan > Indonesia (Jakarta)
Leg 9: Indonesia (Ambon)
Leg 10: Indonesia > Mexico (Teotihuacan)
Leg 11: Mexico (Cancún)
Leg 12: Mexico > United States (Albuquerque, NM)
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mali and mexico are dangrous and patskin