Love it, Zack! Here is my route analysis for TAR 31 on a summer 2018 filming:
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START: Oxnard Beach Park, Oxnard, California
LEG 1: Melbourne, Australia
LEG 2: Port Campbell, Great Ocean Road, Australia
LEG 3: Osaka and Nara, Japan
LEG 4: Vientiane, Laos
LEG 5: Siem Reap, Cambodia
LEG 6: Johannesburg, South Africa
LEG 7: Pretoria, South Africa
LEG 8: Stockholm, Sweden
LEG 9: Riga, Latvia
LEG 10: Barcelona, Spain
LEG 11: Bogota, Colombia
LEG 12: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Route Map START: Oxnard (Its getting away for starting line around LA area than Ventura County)
Starting line task: Teams must find a sailboat at Channel Islands Harbor for 11 marked buoys into a distinct color code in each boat. Once they found a right color on the boat, they would get a clue. Teams are provided with marked vehicles to Los Angeles International Airport to one of two Qantas flights to Melbourne (leaving 50 minutes apart).
LEG 1: Melbourne (flight) (I do generally Australia is way long overdue and we will visit Old Melbourne Gaol and Eureka Tower Pit Stop)
LEG 2: Great Ocean Road (drive) (It is time for a scenic view in South Central Victoria to see The Twelve Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge; teams would have to drive from Melbourne CBD to Cape Otway Lighthouse at Apollo Bay)
LEG 3: Osaka and Nara (flight) (The first half of the leg to focus in Nanba district and travel to Nara for the remainder of the leg to do ninja techniques)
LEG 4: Vientiane (flight) (It will be the first TAR in the country of Laos, Patuxai is one of notable landmarks in the city)
LEG 5: Siem Reap (flight) (Revisiting the old wonders in the city and Angkor Wat would have a pendant match into a correct Buddhist monk)
LEG 6: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area (flight, then drive) (Just like Zimbabwe 1 in the last season, it is going to be taken in rural outside Joburg like taking rappel down the caves at Sterkfontein Caves and looking gem stones in RB)
LEG 7: Pretoria (train) (Urban African legs; take a Gautrain from Johannesburg Park Station to Pretoria Station; Apartheid-era tasks)
LEG 8: Stockholm (flight) (Vikings task like searching rune stones and riding Viking boats)
LEG 9: Riga (ferry) (Another unvisited nation to complete the Baltic country list and visiting Soviet-era bunkers)
LEG 10: Barcelona (flight) (Within a majority of overused Western European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland; its cultural and amidst places like Parc Guell and Sagrada Familia)
LEG 11: Bogota (flight) (Tasks between Fernando Botero and coffee bean tasks outside the city; the penultimate leg in South America could be worthy)
LEG 12: Minneapolis (flight) (This is the right spot for the summer and will get a flight from BOG to MSP via MIA or IAH departs on midnight and that arrives in the morning; teams would have to rappel down 4 stories inside Mall of America and some tasks in neighboring Saint Paul like the State Capitol and Memory Task in Minnetonka Orchards)
PIT STOPSLEG 1: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
LEG 2: Loch Ard Gorge, Port Campbell
LEG 3: Nara Deer Park, Nara
LEG 4: Pha That Luang, Vientiane
LEG 5: Pre Rup Temple, Siem Reap
LEG 6: Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg
LEG 7: Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria
LEG 8: Waldemarsudde, Stockholm
LEG 9: Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum, Riga
LEG 10: Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona
LEG 11: Bogota Botanical Garden, Bogota
LEG 12: Longfellow House, Minneapolis (finish line)
MAJOR CHANGESJohannesburg and Pretoria legs have replaced both Cape Town legs due to the ongoing water crisis in that city.