And to go along with that winter-favored route posted earlier, a summery one <3
START: Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO
Leg 1: to Calgary, Canada to Banff National Park, Canada
(Seriously, people have been complaining about Canada not having a "real" Pit Stop since TAR 9. Adventure sports, orienteering, possibly a rappel, y'know, basic leg 1 stuff)
Leg 2: to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
(So I WAS going to simply put in a Vancouver leg because that's what most people do but screw it, it's my fantasy race. Language tasks, dog race training, mining, y'know, basic leg 2 stuff)
Leg 3: to Chengdu, China
(
China but Chengdu is fun and awesome and spicy and there HAS to be a forced game of baijiu roulette at some point in our edition of TAR)
Leg 4: to (+++) to Kratie, Cambodia
(the leg itself will be entirely in Kratie (your standard 'simple way of living in SE Asia leg') but the fun part of the leg is that teams aren't told how to get to Kratie - either through Phnom Penh or through Siem Reap. NEL because why punish people on a strategy-driven leg?)
Leg 5: to Bangkok, Thailand to Pattaya, Thailand
(...when we can punish them here
Imagine the F4 elim of TAR 15 with the language difficulties and crazy mental tasks and alcohol and drunken locals, then imagine it with twice as many teams and with a Switchback to the Reclining Buddha FF (now a regular task)<3 )
Leg 6: to Doha, Qatar
(I mean if everyone here posts it enough, maybe WRP will actually host a leg here
)
Leg 7: to Bari, Italy to Matera, Italy
(whatever on the leg as long as the Pit Stop is
here)
Leg 8: to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(when is the last time we've had a good urban African leg?)
Leg 9: to Bahir Dar, Ethiopia to Gondar, Ethiopia
(coffee, goats, Amharic lessons, castles, and an NEL? why not)
Leg 10: to Toulouse, France to Andorra to Zaragoza, Spain
(rockets, product placed vehicles, and killer fatigue make for a grueling leg <3)
Leg 11: to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
(TIL: Santo Domingo is the largest city by population in the Caribbean. Imagine a less horrid version of the Panama leg in 19 with presumably a less awesome result)
FINISH: National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame Rooftop Terrace, Chicago, IL
(in 23/4 seasons I don't understand why the insanely spoilerphobic WRP hasn't yet decided to rent a roof out to host the final Pit Stop)
(also food-related memory challenge <3)