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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #125 on: December 15, 2005, 05:35:03 PM »
Hey its snowing  :ballX:

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CULTURAL FLAIR: A Russian girl performs traditional Russian dance during a China-Russia cultural and art festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang

http://www.bjreview.com.cn/200439/World-200439(A).htm

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« Reply #126 on: December 15, 2005, 06:47:23 PM »
This shot was taken between 9:00 and 9:22 am on November 7th, 2005.
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« Reply #127 on: December 15, 2005, 06:53:04 PM »
Here is the route to the airport.

38.1 mi (about 45 mins)
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« Reply #128 on: December 15, 2005, 07:11:30 PM »
Here are flights from Airwise.

The choices seem to be via Miami, LAX, and Dulles.
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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #129 on: December 15, 2005, 07:26:55 PM »
Dallas has a direct flight to sao paulo. i luvvvv the american express skyguide
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« Reply #130 on: December 15, 2005, 08:16:19 PM »
I'm so glad they were here in Brazil again! I agree with charlierose, though. Two legs in São Paulo is too much. I higly doubt it.  Maybe there's a lot of Brazil in the preview because it's the first leg and they haven't edited the rest yet.

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« Reply #131 on: December 15, 2005, 09:20:19 PM »
The airport is a bit of a puzzle. I used GE to compare the cap with various airports around Sao Paulo and found a match in Campo de Marte (code SBMT). The editing would have us think Varig landed there but from this description that seems unlikely. I'm thinking maybe Marte was the site for the nerd-hangar caps, but I haven't found a match yet.

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« Reply #132 on: December 15, 2005, 10:23:41 PM »
The airport is a bit of a puzzle. I used GE to compare the cap with various airports around Sao Paulo and found a match in Campo de Marte (code SBMT). The editing would have us think Varig landed there but from this description that seems unlikely. I'm thinking maybe Marte was the site for the nerd-hangar caps, but I haven't found a match yet.

the first pic looks like the bottom of the yellow helecopter they use

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« Reply #133 on: December 15, 2005, 10:36:28 PM »
The airport is a bit of a puzzle. I used GE to compare the cap with various airports around Sao Paulo and found a match in Campo de Marte (code SBMT). The editing would have us think Varig landed there but from this description that seems unlikely. I'm thinking maybe Marte was the site for the nerd-hangar caps, but I haven't found a match yet.

Its a match Slowhatch  :thumbC: good find !

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« Reply #134 on: December 15, 2005, 10:50:22 PM »
interesting while searching for the russian dancers i found the vodka museum there. wonder if they go there


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« Reply #135 on: December 15, 2005, 10:59:21 PM »
speaking of Vodka , whos ready  :keetaC: ? drinks are on me .

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« Reply #136 on: December 15, 2005, 11:01:21 PM »
speaking of Vodka , whos ready  :keetaC: ? drinks are on me .

im up for some vodka  :thumbC:

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« Reply #137 on: December 15, 2005, 11:25:51 PM »
How about a few White Russians ? it seems fitting   :smileC:


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« Reply #138 on: December 15, 2005, 11:29:14 PM »
How about a few White Russians ? it seems fitting   :smileC:



u got me thinking maybe the dancers r for a detour like the1 in russia in tar5. whats the thing in the middle of them dancing. ive been looking at russian folk dancing halls and not really finding anything.

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« Reply #139 on: December 16, 2005, 12:17:55 AM »
I'm listening to an interview with Phil , download here @ the Paul Harris show
www.harrisonline.com/audio/philkeoghan_tarfe.mp3

Phil describes TAR 9 grueling , exhausting  like season 1 , it knocked him out

Can hardly wait  {|

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« Reply #141 on: December 16, 2005, 12:44:16 AM »
In this shot I see a green pad where the helicopter sits.

I found a place near the airport identified by Slowhatch that has those green pads and the hangars too.
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« Reply #142 on: December 16, 2005, 01:15:47 AM »
This looks like a good place for a clue box leading up to the helicopter task:
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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #143 on: December 16, 2005, 07:13:55 AM »
Those dancers sure LOOK Russian to me. They are without a doubt Eastern European, and it seems unlikely (to me at least) that they'd throw another leg into eastern Europe...

Some other thoughts & a revised route map with confirmed/conjectured dates added...

EP1: Denver (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) (11/7) to Ottawa, Canada
EP2: Ottawa to Sao Paulo, Brazil (bridge, airstrips, yellow helicopter)
EP3: Sao Paulo to Segesta, (Sicily) Italy (ruins)
EP4: Segesta to Corinth, Greece (diving into canal)
EP5: Corinth to Moscow, Russia (St. Basil’s, ballet)
EP6: Moscow to India (elephants)
EP7: India to Perth/Rottnest, Australia (11/24) (newspaper)
EP8a: Perth/Rottnest to Darwin (11/25) (newspaper/sighting) TBC
EP8b: Darwin to Adelaide (11/26) to Lopburi, Thailand (masks, monkeys, Buddha)
EP9: Lopburi (11/27-28??) to Tokyo (11/29-30??) (shopping district, Mt. Fuji)
EP10: Tokyo to Anchorage (12/1) (sighting, red plane)
EP11: Anchorage (12/2) to Denver (12/3)

We may be missing a location or two in the beginning somewhere (11/7-11/24) – the dates don’t add up. Flights will chew up some days, but not enough to cover 17 days between Denver and Perth/Rottnest. Maybe a couple episodes in India like they've done before. A while back, there was a spoiler about going from Denver to Ottawa? (Puddin from OC Register 12/5) This would add a lot of mileage, which would make sense. No connections thru Ottawa to Sao Paolo, right? So they couldn’t have flown from Denver to Sao Paulo thru Ottawa. I toyed with idea of westward trip around globe, but timing doesn’t make sense. Post in Spoilers yesterday mentioned the desperate couple in the Adelaide airport trying to get to Singapore. When they didn’t, they used their previously booked flight to Sydney. Makes me think they were just trying to connect to Lopburi or elsewhere in Thailand (via Singapore OR Sydney) instead of going to Singapore as a destination, so I’ve taken Singapore out of the route map. Must have just been a faster flight going through Singapore. This would certainly be a grueling race (like TAR1) like Phil described in the interview – it is ALL over the map.
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« Reply #144 on: December 16, 2005, 09:30:55 AM »
Does anybody have the text of that Ottawa spoiler article?  I can't get to it.
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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #145 on: December 16, 2005, 09:39:49 AM »
ill re-ask the question that was asked when the ottowa sighting was made. how do we know it wasnt some canadian copy race?

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #146 on: December 16, 2005, 09:57:25 AM »
Quote from: puddin on December 05, 2005, 01:33:52 AM
fwiw~
Amazing again!

The ninth edition of "Amazing Race" began filming - and it promises a return to the classic "race around the world." Reports say that the race began in Denver and quickly moved on to Ottawa, Ontario.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/homepage/article_756287.php


This is the quote I was thinking of...

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« Reply #147 on: December 16, 2005, 09:59:47 AM »
but we  should know by reports that they take there info off the net. example - a reporter quoting hera off sucks when FE was supposidly having problems

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« Reply #148 on: December 16, 2005, 10:05:25 AM »
That's true... the date of the sighting in Ottawa doesn't jibe with the start date of the race, and that story might have been the source of info for the OC article. Besides, Ottawa (no offense) seems like kind of a sucky starting destination -- I can picture the teams opening the envelope and saying: "Ottawa? Crap! I didn're realize we were on the family edition..."

But I dunno... I won't write off Ottawa entirely just yet...

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« Reply #149 on: December 16, 2005, 10:10:13 AM »
i just looked through the skyguide for november. in order for them to go from denver to ottawa they would have to do some really creative flying. if the race began on nov 7 and the candian sighting was nov5 it wasnt them