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TAR 18 Locations/Destinations **spoilers**
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on November 20, 2010, 06:49:44 PM ---Thanks amazing race fan ! and :welcome: :waves:
FB :
(Person from near LA)
They're filming the amazing race in my airport!!!!! I need to join in on the travels lol
17 minutes ago via iPhone
(already contacted)
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I'm calculating that this tweet went out at about 4:30 pm. We later learned that the spotting was in the Food Court at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. More figuring puts this team's arrival at LAX between 3:30 and 4:00 pm. The 2 hour drive time estimate is very optimal and assumes the driver knows the best route and makes no errors. I'd throw in 20 to 30 min of route inefficiency for being a crazed racer without a nav system. That puts their Wind Farm departure in the range from 1:00 to 1:40 pm. The rainbow start time* projects them to be starting the paper airplane task at about 12:30 pm.
So, I'm guessing the paper airplane task took 30 to 70 minutes to complete. What do you suppose they had to do? Remember that the wind is blowing strong at this location all the time. I would hate to have to catch a bunch of flying paper. Especially next to that cliff! :ascared
The most filmable scenario would be to have production dump 100's of planes from on top of the wind turbines near the cliff (behind Phil ) and have the racers chase them down as they fly over the desert floor. It would not be that dangerous since the wind blows away from the cliff :lol:
Can't Wait ! :trampb:
* Note that technically, the rainbow shot may not be the real start but just a staging shot taken as much as 30 min before the real thing.
chill_sd:
If the Start Line is where we now think it is (yellow oval) it is actually in the NW 1/4 of T3S, R3E, Section 12. It's even only barely in the SW 1/16 of that 1/4. The path back to I-10, does go through the SW 1/4 listed in the film permit.
JETandCORDfan:
I have driven on the I-10 many times. I have passed that wind farm once or twice, and as I live in El Segundo, witch is less than 2 miles to LAX, Usually there isn't much traffic there at 12:30 - 3:00pm , so that could take 10 - 30 minutes off of the drive.
DrRox:
I would also suspect that since it was a Saturday afternoon, traffic would have been much less than a weekday. But I like Chateau's timeline. I would think offhand, that Mel/Mike and Zev/Justin might know how to get to LAX since they are residents of the LA Basin. Amand/Kris might know too, but I doubt the others would know the way and will have to stop to get a map or directions. From reading the directions on Chateau's map, even though it looks likes a pretty direct route, there seems to be a lot of freeway switching along the way. Unless they have a lot signage for LAX......it would seem pretty easy to miss an exit to a tourist to the area.
I have not been on the highways and streets of LA since about 1960. I have flown in and out of LAX quite a few times since then, but never left the terminal. If it had been me, getting the clue to head to LAX from Whitewater. I could have done it without getting a map or asking directions. I don't know how much longer it would have taken. I decided to take a look at GE just to see if I was crazy. I would just have followed I-10 to I-405 and turned left. I do know that that route would get me close enough to see LAX signs on the freeway. Now if there is a lot of signage in El Monte to LAX..I might have followed the I-605 to the I-105. I guess it depends on what the clue in Phil's pocket says. If it is a gaurentee of a seat on the first flight...I dont think I would have stopped for a map or info. If it was race to the counter.....well then it depends on how many had left before me I guess.
georgiapeach:
cap from the racer individual interviews.
Name that city :lol:
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