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♥♥♥ TAR14: Victoria Pfeifer Hunt & Brad Hunt ♥♥♥

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puddin:
Congratulations Victoria and Brad & family! How adorable  :hugs:  :-* ! Thank you for sharing :congrats:

TARAsia Fan:
Congratulations, Brad & Victoria!!!!

You know he's going to be an Amazing Race fan as he waited until after the premiere.

michael:
Congrats guys!
cool name.

puddin:
Love ya Victoria & Brad!  :hearts: Good Luck  :jam: !!! And Happy RACE DAY!!  :jumpy:  :wohoo:

puddin:
 
‘The Amazing Race 14′: Brad & Victoria exit interview

Brad & Victoria, the married Ohio couple, were eliminated on Episode 3 of “The Amazing Race” Season 14.
What was the most interesting location during your participation in the race?
Brad: Brasov, Romania. Most people travel to exotic destinations like Thailand or cultural places like Western Europe. But not too many people think of Eastern Europe. We enjoyed the parts where we stayed at — the old town. I liked that we were surrounded by 400-to-600-year-old buildings.
Do you feel they were giving you enough money for each part of the race?
Victoria: They give you money at the beginning of each leg — I think they give you just enough money to not have enough. You know what your immediate expenses are going to be, like flights, trains or cabs. But should you allow yourself to spend money on food? You become very frugal.
Brad: Not only that, but by just barely having enough money, when you run into problems you can’t buy your way out of it. So when you do run into trouble it forces you to interact with the locals. If we had credit cards we could get ourselves out of any kind of jam. Without them, we had to get people to help us. But we also had to watch our budget. When we were planning our travel we had to think in terms of not just what’s the fastest way to get to the next place, but what’s the cheapest way to get there. It makes it a much more personal experience.

How many real-time hours (not TV hours) did the Amsterdam detour take you?
Victoria: We think we lost about 18 hours. I was zippity-zip through the gymnastics. And you saw Brad opening those bloody boxes… Keep in mind they had finished the gymnastics hours before we’d even gotten on the plane (9:15 a.m.). They finished the challenges early in the morning and were waiting at the train station in Bucharest to get to Brasov. We did it [Amsterdam detour] to get an advantage and everyone ended up bunching up anyway at the train.
Victoria: It was hard from our perspective too — while we were watching it on TV. We knew we were going to be eliminated and the only time they could really show us was at the butt end of the episode. They could have had an hour of our efforts to catch up — there was a lot that wasn’t shown.
Brad: When we got off the plane in Bucharest we got a cab driver that was just like the car chases in James Bond movies. He was missing cars by an inch. He was driving on train tracks and in oncoming traffic. It was a death ride, but we loved every minute of it.
Victoria: I really enjoyed the gymnastics. I had fun with it, I had no problems. I don’t think I had to repeat a single exercise. But we maybe only saw 15 seconds of that.
Did you stay at the hotel that’s right at the airport? How’d you sleep?
Brad: They— KLM—put us up in actually what we were told was the nicest Holiday Inn in the world, and I believe it. I can’t say we didn’t enjoy it.
Victoria: We ate well, we slept well. But we felt miserable.
Where do you think you’ll be traveling to next?
Brad: We have some travel planned. We’ll be going to L.A. for a VIP party with the cast. Internationally, we talked about Argentina this morning. We’d both like to go to India but would need two to four weeks for that trip. We have real jobs and it’s hard to find the time to get away. We’d like to take at least one international trip a year.
We’ve already been to Canada and Mexico — out-of-the-way places not on tours, like Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Copper Canyon. Typically we don’t travel to touristy places. We loved Puerto Rico. Not enough people know what a varied place it is or about all of the activities there. It’s so easy to get to and easy traveling for U.S. citizens. No passport. Highly recommended.
One thing we got out of the race was that it was kind of easy traveling. In the beginning we were a little hesitant about what it’d take to do exotic international traveling, but it turned out to be super-easy. It’s so pleasurable — so different from the travel that we’d done in the United States.
Victoria: The people around the world are so genuinely kind and helpful. It’s refreshing. It makes it easy to want to go back.
— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/the-amazing-race-14--4191/

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