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apskip:
This is verified is of vital importance. I wonder if they were watching Amazing Race Asia 3. I don't think that AR13 would have gotten there undetected, although it is possible if going westward from the U.S.

Please keep us informed as best you can, amazing_hey.

georgiapeach:
Thanks for the detective work amazing__hey!!

We know that Phil was cycling in NZ on Sun 3/16.

Could he have gotten from NZ to a theoretical west coast departure city in time for pre-departure publicity shoots, which are usually 1-2 days beforehand, and still have made it to HK for this sighting on 3/20?

Hopefully apskip can tell us if it is in fact feasible from an airline point of view, although the schedule seems quite tight to me, and would mean that HK was the first city.

I do believe that HK has a corporate team building type local version race, so perhaps it was something to do with that instead.

And I thought TARA3 was still casting? ???  Wasn't the deadline extended? We also need to check on that.

So lets take this with a grain of salt, but use all of our resources to confirm or deny this!

Off to check some of my sources! :lol:

apskip:
In answer to Peach's question, here is some flight work relevant to the answer, which is YES HE CAN DO IT:

The flight from Christchurch via Auckland is 0 hours on the clock and with the 20 hour time zone difference between New Zealand and LA that makes the total flying time 20 hours(long connection in Auckland). The nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong into the jet stream is just 15 hours.  The total flying time of about 25 hours makes it easy to fit into 4 days along with 2 days at the starting point.

Air New Zealand flights 620 and 6 originate at 1115 on March 16 and arrive LA 1110 on the 16th. For the 17th, the choices out of Auckland(add an appropriate and shorter connection for non-Sunday flights CHC to AKL) are:

QF26 1855 1045 same day
NZ2   2230 1430 same day
NZ8  1915 1130 same day

Choices LA to HKG are:

CX886 1220 to 1855 +1
CX883 2320 to 0540 +2
UA887 1210 to 1840 +1

Phil would leave LAX on the 18th or 19th. That gives him 2 days to do his thing in Los Angeles. There is no other West Coast city where there has the same feasibility. However, San Francisco has a nonstop flight to HKG and a  nonstop flight in from Auckland. The extra hour flying time to San Francisco could be important. However, since Los Angeles has opened Amazing Race before and San Francisco has not, I actually think if this scenario is correct that it would be through San Francsisco, so here are those flights:

NZ90 1115 - 1235 CHC AKL, connect to NZ8 1930 1145 AKL SFO same for either March 16 or 17 except shorter CHC to AKL connection on 17th

CX879 1305 1900 +1 SFO HKG

Neobie:
Thanks and nice effort amazing_hey! :sucks

Just a translation job from the original poster, lokhinterr, for you guys to pick apart:

"It was a couple of days back when I saw two Caucasian women at Central MTR Station, buying tickets for the subway. They were wearing vests/singlets and shorts, carrying big backpacks, and holding a yellow envelope labelled 'The Amazing Race'."

and...

"It was at the ticket machines between Exits C & D, at around noon last Thursday. Maybe they even caught me on camera!"

and when asked why he/she didn't stalk the racers...

"I've got work to return to!"

Someone postulated that they could have made it to Central on the Airport Express, changed trains to Tsim Sha Tsui, and again to catch the train up to Mainland China... But I'm not sure if that requires buying extra tickets at Central...

amazing_hey, same luck here with bumping into TAR, eh?

Random from that site:


Where TAR met TAR:A... Is this Prague?

apskip:
Neobie:

I can't tell you if that is Prague airport, but I can tell you that an analysis I published in an appropriate thread(I can't remember which one) concluded that the morning that the two AR12 teams were essentially stranded in Prague airport could not have overlapped at all with the ARA2 tems that were never near Prague airport but came in and out of its train station.

The crossing of the two races was a myth, although they were in the same city at the same time.

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