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mswood:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on February 21, 2011, 10:17:55 PM ---Love the timing on this. :groan:
I had actually heard some strong rumors that there was going to finally be another Egypt leg this time around...no surprises here.
Tunisia would be a no-go as well.
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Peach do we happen to know what season skipped argentina and went South Africa?
georgiapeach:
It almost has to be Season 2, right?
Season 1 was obviously planned.
Season 2 went Brazil>>So Africa, Argentina would have gone nicely there.
was filmed Jan 2002
Argentina was in turmoil in December:
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/19/argentina.riots/
some of the tasks there seemed a little simplistic
Season 7 went to Argentina AND So Africa...
did I miss any??
DrRox:
Season 2 makes a lot of sense.....there was so much confusion at the Sao Paulo airport to get to S Africa. Tar 11 did Argentina and later Southern Africa....but I think they just went through J'burg on the way to Maputo, Mozembique.
theschnauzers:
The season with the route change was season two. They had planned to have teams go from Rio to Buenos Aires, but changed it due to the financial crisis and protests over it, and the fact that the rate of hyperinflation in Argentina at the time made its currency essentially worthless, and would have made it difficult for teams to exchange currency in Argentina for any tasks or movement there.
I had been under the impression that they had changed the Brazil leg to two legs to deal with the problem of Argentina, but this is the first time I've heard that they had actually decided to send teams to South Africa immediately, instead.
I also recall that the problems teams had that season in Rio and Sao Paulo was that the only direct flight was every other day, and that the next day's flights were sold out and oversold, in fact, so that teams could not use a waiting list for the flight. That's what set up the crazy fly-to-northern-hemisphere-and- Europe in order to get to South Africa routing the teams used, and how the Grannies made their fatal error flying back to JFK before Heathrow.
TarJunkie999:
News Flash: Mallory seen on TMZ today, she said "Hi", then they showed the "watermelon-in-the-face" clip from last season, everyone laughed, Harvey was as stupid as he always was. End of story. *yawn*
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