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Margie & Luke Adams - 3rd Place *Come in and say Hello to Luke!*
DeafRacer:
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--- Quote from: DeafRacer on May 30, 2009, 10:12:37 PM ---Now, I have a question for y'all. I think I read someone's post that there was a direct flight from Novosibirsk to Jaiuper or New Delhi once a week? That would have been much easier than going through Moscow!
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Heh, short answer? No. :lol: Wikipedia (and we all know how reliable it is) said there was a plane to Delhi, but checking the schedules the flight certainly didn't apply to the week of racing.
If it was TAR1-style no-rules get-there-as-fast-as-you-can racing though, you could have probably made:
Depart Pit Stop at 12.18am
S7863 to Beijing: 0150-0750
CZ3162 to Guangzhou: 1015-1310
CZ359 to Delhi: 1730-2055
Judging by the timings, it'd probably have put the top three teams the previous leg way ahead of the others. And who were they?
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You guys, Tammy/Victor, and Jaime/Cara.
We know the producers forced you guys through Moscow though!
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Moscow Airport SUCKS a big time! Cara + Jaime and my Mom + I were only ones that gotten on a flight directly into Moscow from Novosibirsk while rest of other teams had to take a flight to an airport that is an hour away outside of Moscow. Cara and Jaime + my mom and I tried to find an earliest flight we could to India and the earliest one was in the afternoon so it gave other teams a lot of time to catch up. From what I heard, it was so stressful for other teams to get into Moscow. I think Tammy + Victor and Mike + Mel took a subway while other teams took a cab. They all almost didn't made it on the first flight out to India - it was a close call for them but it would have been good for Cara + Jaime and my Mom and me to have some lead!
--- Quote from: slayton on May 31, 2009, 03:13:39 PM ---Hello, Luke.
On the twop Tarcon 14 recap, it says that your Mom said that the show was "the worst thing ever" the first time that she watched it.
Which episode was her first? What changed her mind about the show?
Thanks.
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Haha, that's a good question. I don't know which was the first episode that she saw though. Probably the one from Season 1 or Season 2 when I tried to get her to watch the show with me when I was in high school. She probably thinks it was "the worst thing ever" because I couldn't stop talking about Amazing Race when I was in high school and I would just hogged t.v. in living room when Amazing Race was on that got her mad, haha. I remember one day that my Mom emailed me and said that she was really amazed and blew away when Joyce had her hair shaved off in India on Season 7 - maybe that's when it changed her mind about the show. Now, she's a big fan of the show! :-)
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on June 01, 2009, 03:12:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: slayton on May 31, 2009, 03:13:39 PM ---Hello, Luke.
On the twop Tarcon 14 recap, it says that your Mom said that the show was "the worst thing ever" the first time that she watched it.
Which episode was her first? What changed her mind about the show?
Thanks.
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Haha, that's a good question. I don't know which was the first episode that she saw though. Probably the one from Season 1 or Season 2 when I tried to get her to watch the show with me when I was in high school. She probably thinks it was "the worst thing ever" because I couldn't stop talking about Amazing Race when I was in high school and I would just hogged t.v. in living room when Amazing Race was on that got her mad, haha. I remember one day that my Mom emailed me and said that she was really amazed and blew away when Joyce had her hair shaved off in India on Season 7 - maybe that's when it changed her mind about the show. Now, she's a big fan of the show! :-)
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Seeing Joyce agree to have her hair shaved off -- and seeing Uchenna's support of her while she was having it shaved off -- impressed me as well! I remember how Brandon & Nicole bailed out on the Fast-Forward in Season 5 when it was the same thing, so I knew that Joyce was very committed to the Race in order to do something like that!
Belle Book
TARAsia Fan:
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on June 01, 2009, 03:12:40 AM ---From what I heard, it was so stressful for other teams to get into Moscow. I think Tammy + Victor and Mike + Mel took a subway while other teams took a cab. They all almost didn't made it on the first flight out to India - it was a close call for them but it would have been good for Cara + Jaime and my Mom and me to have some lead!
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Hi Luke,
Yes, Tammy, Victor and Mel have talked about this experience about running from the Moscow Domestic Airport to the International Airport and just barely making the flight. I wish the producers would have shown this.
And it's great that you converted your mom as a fan. :tup:
DrRox:
Thats not right Ken. Moscow has three international airports and two domestic airports for a total of 5 airports. The teams had to switch from DME to SVO. They are on opposite sides of town. Both SVO and DME have international and domestic terminals. From what Luke says, he and his mom and J/C flew into SVO domestic and most of the other teams flew into the domestic terminal of DME and then crossed Moscow on some form of ground transportation (trains or cab) and and all teams left from the international terminal at SVO.
Btw, there is at the present time, no one train from one airport to the other. T/V and Mel/Mike had to switch train terminals and trains in downtown Moscow.
apskip:
Ken, Dr. Rox is absolutely correct. Sheremetyevo Airport is 27 km north of the center of Moscow and Domodedovo Airport is 22 km south southeast of the center of Moscow. That total is 30 miles for a public tranportation or taxi ride between those airports.
I do agree that seeing the comparative film for public transit vs. taxis would have been exceiting since the arrrival time was not much in advance of the lastest one to make the flight to Delhi.Like you, I would have appreciated seeing a little of it.
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