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EP3: 'Please, Lord, Give Me Milk !'
MamaTo4boys:
--- Quote from: Michael D on November 12, 2007, 12:43:35 PM ---I think I see team grampa in the background of that picture puddin, but i'm not sure.
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Yeah, you can't miss Nicholas' orange shirt and blue backpack lol.
apskip:
I want to offer up a view of what might be happening in the early stages of Burkina Faso. I think that teams arrive at the Ouagadougou airport and then go to get a clue at the NaBa Koom statue at the railway station. I believe the clue directs them to vans or possibly self-drive cars to take them southeast to Dourtenga or maybe even further. All the screencaps we have been getting are for highly rural enviroments, so the probability is that teams are going away from Ouagadougou after the briefest of time there. With the time of arrival being 740pm at the airport, it will be after dark before teams arrive wherever they are going. All the major activities will take place on July 14 (coincidentally Bastille Day is France and maybe celebrated in some way in Burkina Faso).
apskip:
Concern has been expressed by Peach to me by PM about the rainy season in Burkina Faso and whether road trips from Ouagadougou to somewhere in the southeast and on to Niamey Niger would be feasible. I have found data on the rainy season(June to September, which is certainly when the Amazing Race is there) for the south of Burkina Faso. Total annual rainfall concentrated in those 4 months is 40 inches (about what we get in the new York metropolitan area in a year. The average per day is 0.33 inches. As long as they don't get 5 inches all at once, it may not be a problem. If it were, then an option is for World Race Productions to have teams return back to Ouagadougou and take charter flights the 300 miles from there to Niamey.
puddin:
Thanks apskip, i was wondering if that scene in the dark was perhaps not the pitstop, rather the teams arriving or waiting for something doing the happy dance--
Lorena has long sleeves on then changes to short sleeves at the RB and later Jason has put a coat on and then Lorena's bandanna has disappeared " BABBYYYYYYYYYYYYYY......." . A promo would be sweet and so we wait :(
Now stop about mushpants you guys :lol:! s/he was pedaling the short bike in the back of the pack and couldn't keep up -- sorry mushpants, you have been philiminated :pedaler:
apskip:
Here's another gem from my collection of little-known geographic facts:
If teams go east on the main road from Koupela in Kourtenga province to Fada N'Gourma in Gourma province, they will be crossing the Prime Meridian(the one that runs through the Greenwich Observatory in London). Ouagadougou is 2 degrees west and Niamey is 2 degrees east.
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