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EP7 airs 12/23 : "This is Forever, Now"

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michael:
This is the first episode so far of this season that *really* felt like the amazing race for me! I loved it :D

apskip:
Once on the road in Ancona, the optimum route to Empoli would be as follows:

 1: Start out going SOUTHWEST on VIA VENTINOVE SETTEMBRE toward LARGO CADUTI SUL MARE. 0.3 miles Map
 
 2: VIA VENTINOVE SETTEMBRE becomes VIA GUGLIELMO MARCONI. <0.1 miles Map
 
 3: Turn RIGHT onto BANCHINA GIOVANNI DA CHIO. <0.1 miles Map
 
 4: Turn LEFT onto MOLO SUD. 0.3 miles Map
 
 5: Turn LEFT onto VIA LUIGI EINAUDI. 0.2 miles Map
 
 6: Take the E55 ramp toward A14 / SS76 / ROMA / PESARO. 1.2 miles Map
 
 7: Stay STRAIGHT to go onto VIA FLAMINIA. 1.1 miles Map
 
 8: Turn LEFT to take the E55 ramp toward A14 / SS76 / ROMA. <0.1 miles Map
 
 9: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto VIA CONCA / SP4 / STRADA PROVINCIALE DEL VALLONE. Continue to follow SP4 / STRADA PROVINCIALE DEL VALLONE. 0.8 miles Map
 
 10: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto ramp. 0.1 miles Map
 
 11: Merge onto SS16 / STRADA STATALE ADRIATICA. 3.3 miles Map
 
 12: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto ramp. 0.3 miles Map
 
 13: Merge onto SS76 / STRADA STATALE DELLA VAL D'ESINO. 1.6 miles Map
 
 14: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto ramp. 0.4 miles Map
 
 15: Merge onto A14 toward BOLOGNA (Portions toll). 127.1 miles Map
 
 16: Keep RIGHT to take A14 toward BOLOGNA CASALECCHIO / A1 / FIRENZE / E35 (Portions toll). 3.5 miles Map
 
 17: Keep LEFT to take A1 toward FIRENZE (Portions toll). 56.6 miles Map
 
 18: Take the S.G.C. FIRENZE-PISA-LIVORNO exit toward FIRENZE SCANDICCI. 0.7 miles Map
 
 19: Take the ramp toward PISA / LIVORNO / SCANDICCI. 0.1 miles Map
 
 20: Merge onto STRADA DI GRANDE COMUNICAZIONE FI-PI-LI. 11.9 miles Map
 
 21: Take the ramp toward EMPOLI EST. 0.1 miles Map
 
 22: Turn LEFT. 0.1 miles Map
 
 23: Turn LEFT onto SS67 / VIA TOSCO-ROMAGNOLA / STRADA STATALE TOSCO-ROMAGNOLA. Continue to follow VIA TOSCO-ROMAGNOLA. 1.0 miles Map
 
 24: VIA TOSCO-ROMAGNOLA becomes VIA JACOPO CARRUCCI. <0.1 miles Map
 
 25: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto VIALE FRANCESCO PETRARCA. 0.1 miles Map
 
 26: Turn LEFT onto VIA GIULIO MASINI. 0.4 miles Map
 
 27: Turn LEFT onto VIA TINTO DA BATTIFOLLE. <0.1 miles Map
 
 28: Turn RIGHT onto PIAZZA DELLA VITTORIA. <0.1 miles Map
 
 29: Stay STRAIGHT to go onto VIA DEL GIGLIO. <0.1 miles Map
 
 30: Turn LEFT onto VIA COSIMO RIDOLFI. <0.1 miles Map
 
 31: VIA COSIMO RIDOLFI becomes PIAZZA DEL POPOLO. <0.1 miles Map
 
 32: End at Empoli, Toscana IT  Map
 
Total Est. Time: 3 hours, 18 minutes     Total Est. Distance: 212.66 miles  
                                 Advanced OptionsShortest TimeShortest Distance
 Avoid Highways
 Avoid Tolls
 Avoid Seasonally-Closed Roads
 Reverse Route

If you want to see it mapped, use http://www.mapquest.com/directions/europe.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&qq=hltF3hzNT9vgCYgFpG%252fDI6Zd139xgLqWl5mHnyn%252b%252b8o%253d&ct=EU&rsres=1&1y=IT&1a=&1c=Ancona&1z=&2y=IT&2a=&2c=Empoli&2z=&r=f  
 
The biggest portion is the Austostrada 14 toward Bologna and then the Austostrada 1 toward Florence. A team that could figure out this route and do it according to the estimated time would have arrived by about 2am, which Nathan and Jennifer may have done. Everyone else was 3 or more hours behind that.

Slowhatch:
Was there any indication of which ferry line was taken? Here is the departure list for the three ferry lines for July 2007. SNAV generally leaves Split at 1700, while Blue Line leaves at 2100.

puddin:
Too bad we never put more thought into "Split!"

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Slowhatch:
Yeah, it was in front of us the whole time; serves us right for not thinking laterally.

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