Taking out time from Uncle Sam and his g. d. taxes:
Time Line so far:
In the early morning since all teams arrived at the pit stop before sunset at 4:59PM in Siracusa.
Drive to Catania Airport - 42 miles more or less along state highway S114.
All teams get on the 6:25AM flight from Catania to Rome
Arrive in Rome at 7:45AM and take Rapid Direct Train to Termini station; get on metro Line A and go two stops to Barberini Station.
Walk to Piazza Fontana di Trevi. Get clue to solve Da Vinci's Code.
Travel around Rome by Metro or Taxi in search of clue.
Eric and Jeremy somehow get way ahead or figure out the clue before the others and take cab back to the Airport (they are seen in a cab, pumping up with joy (Jeremy holds blue route clue) in area that looks like the departure area of the airport (note underground parking behind them) and they catch the early 11:00AM flight to Athens .
Other teams muddle through and catch later flights to Athens.
In Athens, teams pick up marked vehicles and drive to Tower of the Winds location in the Ancient Roman Forum. BUNCH POINT SINCE IT DOES NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL 8:30am But The Beach Boys have come and gone
Clue here leads them on a 60mile drive to the Corinth Canal. Teams should take route E94 for the most direct route.
ROADBLOCK: Bungee Jump from the highway bridge over the Corinth Canal. We see the following team members jumping:
Ray, Tyler, Michelle, Monica, and Fran. Missing, of course, Eric and Jeremy.
Teams now have to drive along E65 another approximately 150 miles to Ancient Olympia. Some teams, as usual, get lost on the way.Here they find the DETOUR. One of the tasks is to perform the events associated with the ANCIENT PENTATHLON:
Sprinting
Wrestling
Javelin Throwing
Discus Throwing
Long Jump.
Not clear is whether team members must both do each task, or they can alternate but end up with both team members working together to throw the "professional" wrestler out of the marked circle. I think this is the case since we see BJ throwing the discus, and Tyler throwing the javelin, and both working together to nail the wrestler. We see Ray, BJ, Tyler, Joseph, and Monica doing these tasks.
No idea of what the other task is. This task may be done by The Old Folks, and The Evil Ones and entail some more intellectual task at the Olympia Museum.
Then the teams go on to the pit stop. Not clear where this is. It could be still in Ancient Olympia at the Temple of Zeuz or at the Temple of Hera, Or they may have to drive back 150 miles to the town of Nafplio and find either the Palamidi Fortress which could require a climb up the cliff which takes 935 steps, or find a boat to reach the fortified Isle of Bourtzi.
In any case, I am sure that The Beach Boys have reached this location many hours ago. They had to perform some Fast Forward task along the way, but I doubt that they had to shave their heads!!
And the last team to reach the Pit Stop WILL BE ELIMINATED. On CBS Sunday Morning, they did promo the fact that "the next team to be cast off from The Amazing Race woulld be on the Thursday morning TES program."
Now back to Uncle Sam