And we get to the big one, and probably one of the most important aspects of the race as a whole.
SELF NAVIGATION
This is only for motorized vehicles (I am not going to include any team lost while rowing a boat).
And a general note. In most cases Teams are lost as soon as they get into a town. Usually its get directions or a map very quickly. There is only one time I am counting an occurance of a team arriving and the time it takes them to get directions or a map as being lost. It will be noted.
Teams that immediately grab a a "fern" (say at the airport), or hire a cab to follow without getting lost first are not included in this list and will be in the "Fern" section.
Leg 1:
Rob & Kimberly go past on ramp to freeway in Seattle
Erwin & Godwin go past on ramp to freeway in Seattle.
Bilal & Saeed get lost trying to drop off car at Thrifty.
Kellie & Jamie get lost trying to drop off car at thrifty.
Rob & Kimberly get lost trying to drop off car at thrifty
Erwin & Godwin get lost trying to drop off car at thrifty.
Okay we have now got to the airport. He He.
Vipol & Arti are unable to direct their sidecar to the detour route marker in China.
Leg 2:
Rob & Kimberly get lost going to Terlj
Kellie & Jamie get lost going to Terelj
Tom & Terry get lost going to Terelj
Lyn & Karlyn get lost going to Terelj
Duke & Lauren get lost going to Terelj
Kellie & Jamie after returning to the first route marker get lost again going to Terelj
Kellie & Jamie get lost going to Pit Stop.
Leg 3:
Rob & Kimberly get lost getting to travel agency
They also get briefly lost at the sirport.
Leg 6:
Dustin & Kandice get lost going to Kuwait Towers
Lyn & Karlyn get lost going to Bead Shop
Peter & Sarah get lost going to Bead Shop
Tyler & James get seriously lost going to Detour (total time 4 hours James says)
Rob & Kimberly get lost going to Detour
Dustin & Kandice get lost going to Detour
Peter & Sarah get lost going to Detour (at east 8 hours and never do find it, have to be directed by production staff)
David & Mary get lost going to Pit Stop
Rob & Kimberly get lost going to Pit Stop
Erwin & Godwin get lost going to Pit Stop
Peter & Sarah are directed by Production to Pit Stop (phil needs to get some sleep)
Not a good leg, for anyone, but a bad leg (time lost for) for Tyler & James, and one of the worst navigation legs ever for Peter & Sarah.
Leg 7:
Tyler & James make a mistake waiting to long to get directions, by the time they get to a hotel, teams already have over 10 minutes on them (this is the one exception to the looking for directions or a map when you first get to a new country that I am counting as a navigation error)
Rob & Kimberly getting to Case Noyal (the post office)
Tyler & James getting to Case Noyal (the post office)
Rob & Kimberly get lost going to the Pit Stop
Erwin & Godwin, David & Mary, and Lyn & Karlyn who are all at this point driving together get lost going to the Pit Stop.
David & Mary by themselves get lost breifly going to the Pit Stop.
This leg had a roadblock that was edited out of the episode. Based on local on lookers (who had photos and Videos) we can assume this take place after the detour. Since the teams arrive in the following order. Dustin & Kandice, Rob & Kimberly, Tyler & James, Erwin & Godwin, and Lyn and Karlyn (they didn't see David & Mary). This fits the order leaving the detour. They all left in the same order with the only thing they noticed was that Tyler & James made up some time of the first two teams and that Lyn & Karlyn struggled with it. But due to the edit, which included having to navigate, we are not for sure where teams might have lost time. Going to the roadblock, or going to the Pit Stop.
But somewhere after they finished the detour, Kandice and Dustin lost a sizeable lead over Rob & Kimberly and Tyler & James. What we don't know is if they got lost (my personal belief) or if they just drove painfully slow to perserve the vehicle. The reason I believe getting lost is that Erwin & Godwin get stuck with the same car for the first part of the next leg, and they apparently have no problem with it.
Leg *:
Special Note-James plots a course to the airport at the beginning of this leg. The course is accurate so technically he isn't lost. But it is a significant error in judgment because instead of driving the shortest distance to the airport, he was just retracing their steps from the day before (which again does get them to the sirport), but it is a significant increase in mileage.
Lyn & Karlyn break off from Erwin & Godwin to get to the airport. We do not know which one took the best route or if one of the two groups got lost.
Leg 9:
Tyler & James get briefly lost trying to find the marked building at the mine company.
Dustin & Kandice get a a little more lost trying to find the marked building at the mine company.
Rob & Kimberly get the most lost trying to find the marked building at the mine company.
Dustin & Kandice get lost driving into Helsinki tot he Olympic Stadium.
Leg 10:
Lyn & Karlyn get lost driving to the Helsinki airport
Erwin & Godwin and Lyn & Karlyn get repeatedily lost going to the Tank School.
Tyler & James get lost going back into Kiev.
Dustin & Kandice get lost going back into Kiev.
Erwin & Godwin and Lyn & Karlyn repeatedily get lost going into Kiev.
Erwin & Godwin get lost going to Dance and Groove, and must intead take the other detour option.
Leg 11:
Dustin & Kandice get lost trying to locate the Antiquette du Sud (and they are already using a cab to guide them).
Rob & Kimberly and Tyler & James get lost trying to locate the Antiquette du Sud (they were following Dustin & Kandice when they got lost and then branched off on their own).
Lyn & Karlyn get lost going to Atlas Studios.
Dustin & Kandice get lost again trying to find Antiquette du Sud (and they now have a "fern" guiding them in the car).
Rob & Kimberly and Dustin & Kandice get lost going to the Detour Route Marker.
Rob & Kimberly just barely drive pass the detour, but see the other vehicles parked and turn around.
Dustin & Kandice get lost going to the Detour.
Rob & Kim get lost on the road to the Pi Stop.
Leg 12:
Tyler & James get lost trying ot find the market in Casablance.
Dustin & Kandice get lost trying to find the market in Casablanca.
Rob & Kimberly get lost trying to find the market in Casablanca.
Lyn & Karlyn get lost trying to find the market in Casablanca.
For a season that doesn't use a ton of teams driving themselves, all of the teams need onstar. I mean they need it bad.