One of these days I'll stop calling a Detour and Roadblock and a Roadblock a Detour
Trying to put some order into the scheme of things - and keep in mind that the CBS and AOL previews always keep some things hidden from our prying eyes:
Ep. 7 (First Hour)
First off from the arrival times at the beach in our last endearing episode, the tide is fairly up high when the Paolos, Linz and Bransen families arrive within minutes of eachother. Although cloudy (working back from the following) it looks to be early afternoon. After a lengthy wait, the tide is now much lower, the Godlewskis arrive and the shadows are lengthening. The Weaver arrive and the tide is way out and the shadows are even longer. And since the Gaghans are right on their tail we know the sun is setting since we hear Pa Gaghan exclaim "it's beautiful here with the sunset on the water". If the pitstop is only 12 or 36 hours we would be starting off in the blackness of the early morning; but it is daylight now so let's assume perhaps the pitstop was only 18 hours (happened before in Pennsylvania)
Looks like they leave the pitstop in the early morning for a bracing morning dip in the ocean. A ROADBLOCK since we see only Papa Paolo in the water with the rest of the Paolo family waiting on shore. But who else is in the water? There is someone else swimming and it looks like a cameraperson in scuba gear shooting Papa. Must be a planned event since we have underwater camerapeople standing (sic!) by.
Here they get a clue for a DETOUR: Cane or Drain. (l) Load a cart with sugar cane and cart it off to the sugar mill or (2) drain barrels or kegs hunting for a clue. There are five barrels with clues in a room containing hundreds and we hear Meg Linz "this could take forever" and so they opt out and go to Cane. #2 had been done several times before most recently when Gretchen had to find the tin box with the clue in India (TAR7 EP8).
Clue here may direct them to go to the San Jose airport and catch a plane back to the States - to Phoenix, AZ. There is an Americn Airlines flight out at 9:05AM arriving in PH at 4:55PM. At the airport they pick up a marked GMC Yukon SUV with a clue to drive to the La Puesta del Sol in Ft. McDowell National Reservation the pitstop for this leg of the race and one team "may be eliminated" Nope. This is the second of a predetermined number of Non-Elimination legs. The team who know they are running last has learned from the Godlewskies what to do: Pile on everything you own before Phil takes it away from you. So arriving on the mat, Phil is heard to say "You look rediculous!" Who? Your guess is as good as mine. But my money is on the Bransens since they are getting a minimum of face time in the previews.
Ep. 8 (Second Hour)
During the time in Arizona we have the following:
ROADBLOCK - Ride a stunt plane from the Fighter Combat International located in Meza, AZ This occurs very early in the morning; if the teams leave in the dead of night again, they probably will be faced with a wait at the airport for "open for business" pre-determined time. So everyone bunches up and each team at the git go runs for the number board to get their place in line after reading the ROADBLOCK CLUE.
DETOUR - One task might be to race around the mini-car race track in a pretermined time. The other task: unknown. Or this could be a second ROADBLOCK. Stange things have been happening in this series. But we have Ma Weaver racing and the three siblings on the sidelines worried; they do not look like they are waiting their turn, but they could be.
Planes or Racecars cannot both be part of a DETOUR since we have the Godlewski sisters at both
FINAL - Seems to be concerned with a white-water raft trip down Glen Canyon and then rowing themselves to a campsite which will be the pit stop. And one team will be eliminated tonight.
A lot of guess work and plenty of time to straighten it all out. So lets get at it oh faithful dectective you.
I wonder how long the teams will take to learn that the more physical a task seems to be, the quicker it can be done?