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TAR8 Ep 1 Title " Go Mommy, Go! We can Beat Them "
puddin:
Makes sense the lighter weighted families finish the Buggy Ride first ...not much weight to pull , no wonder why the Ailleos , all big men , couldnt complete the task and opted for the barn thingy building .
puddin:
my thoughts ..
It was awesome to watch! A bit slower than what one sees on TV -- the two teams we watched weren't exactly running to and from their cars. It also appeared like they got a bit more direction than one sees on TV in terms of a safety lesson and tips on how to navigate the river and where to go.
(from the TV guide article )
The Aiello team, Tony and his three sons-in-law arrive but take a few minutes before shoving off. Grumbles a crew member, "George Washington is giving them too much instruction," referring to a history reenactor, dressed like the father of our country, who'll ride with each team. Finally, they're paddling with the unimpressive George W. manning the bow, hollering, "Stroke! Stroke!"
It looked like it was the second leg of the race -- at least we heard from some other folks watching that they started with 10 flags. When we got there there were three flags left and we watched two teams complete the task.
The first team we saw looked like a group of siblings in their 20s. They looked pretty athletic and didn't seem to have too much trouble getting across.
( who fits this description ,the poster doesn't describe males/ females ? The Linz Family ? The Godlewski Family ? 42 yr old sister could be mistaken for someone young ?)
The second team looked like an older couple with two teenage sons. The mother looked like her knee was hurting and couldn't really run, but they did all right with the paddling.
( the only team with 2 teenage sons ..
The Paolo Family)
The only reason we even heard about it was a total fluke as they were of course trying to keep it under wraps. Apparently one of the earlier teams had trouble navigating the river and got stuck on the Washington's Crossing Bridge and they had to close the bridge to get them off and for the camera men to film them. As I was leaving work the traffic reporter was commenting on the fact that the bridge had just reopened after being closed so camera crews could film the Amazing Race, so of course we rushed right over!
The SUVs they were driving appeared to have Michigan plates, so they may have started there. Somehow two camera men managed to squeeze into the backs of them -- not a very comfortable ride cross country! Rumor has it they were in Trenton and NYC earlier in the day. One observer thought he heard a participant exclaim that the next clue was someplace in New England.( naw we know they are headed south )
I'm reposting this here
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: The Amazing Race
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I took the boys up to see where Washington Crossed the Delaware today. I like history, they were just hanging around being bums. Come on, I sad, it will be fun.
They gave me that look - the one that says sarcasticly - Right.
Freedom, liberty etc. Get you butts up and put the bikes in the truck it is a 30 minute ride.
They each brought a walkman so they wouldn’t have to listen to me on the ride. Not a vote of confidence.
I pulled into the half empty lot and was told I had to park in the full side by some twerp with a radio and an earphone. He didn’t look like a PA start park guy to me.
Duh there are no spaces in the half that is totally full. The other half was totally empty. I choose to see the lot as half usable not hafl full but the empty side was for a "caravan" coming the geek with an ear piece said.
Right.
A caravan. We have them all the time here in PA.
So I find another lot down the road and parked, get the bikes out of the truck and bike back to the Welcome Center to get a map. It isn’t a very big place but I wanted to know what to see.
The “Welcome Center” was across from the half empty lot. Ask what is up. Some other geek with a radio and ear piece gives us a lame story about filming an ad for PA & NJ tourism.
Right.
PA and NJ share money on a joint ad for tourism. You must be from Mars ‘cause we locals know PA and NJ compete for tourism $ - they don’t get along well enough to film a joint ad.
I lean my bike against a sign and head in to get a map; some woman comes up bableling and tells me to move my bike, the filming and all. I am losing my Evil Emperor charm and walk in leaving the bike were it was.
I said I was going in to get a map. While I was in there all the staff were talking in hushed tones all excited. Way too busy to hand me a map. No other tourists around. I mumbled some kind of a comment about geeks with earphones.
One of the staff ask if they were rude.
No I said they were just acting like a bunch of Tories. I wondered they were so a twitter they didn't get the insult.
Connor & Blair notice a thing that looks just like an Amazing Race mail box. Connor jokes about opening it and the “commercial” guy gets real nervous and say Connor can’t touch it and that is how they are making the tourism ad interesting.
Right.
We bike a bit but they have part of the path roped off. We go around nice like they ask and come back after a bit, it is a small place and few views of the river outside their ropes.
So I sit outside the ropes at one of the few places we could see the crossing talking to the boys about how the river doesn't look all that wide but it would suck rowing across in a snow storm.
Some other geek comes and tells us to move we are in their camera lines. It is a private event and they have a permit.
You put the ropes up. If we are in the ‘line’ it is ‘cause you put the ropes in the wrong place. Dude we’re here to see the river, we are respecting your ropes but it the history is everyone’s.
More lame cover storyness. Clearly something ain’t like they said.
So we move around again and there are guys out in the river and ambulances all over. I am getting tired of getting moved away from the river as Mr. Ambulance guy come over.
What’s Up with all the equipment I ask.
It is a Drill, said with no sincerity.
Right same lack of sincerity.
I came to see the crossing.
Well you picked a good day stick around and watch TV in September.
So we go back to another rope line, (but in the same 'safe' camera line as all the geeks with earpieces.)
The geeks get all jazzed up, their earpices a buzz “They are coming.”
A bunch of Suburbans come rolling across the bridge.
(Why didn’t George et al use the Bridge?)
Families of 4 (it was the Family edition of Amazing Race – we sent them a tape but didn’t make the cut.) come running out of their Suburbans in the still almost half empty side of the parking lot, check the Connor cant touch it mail box and run to the river where the camera guys tell them to stop and run in in a better formed group on the angle they want. So the families stop and re-run in for the cameras.
(Next time you see the Amazing Race and they are all running in a group – the camera guy stopped them and told them to.)
It was a challenge. They had to row a guy dressed in colonial stuff across the river, grab a flag and row back.
We watched 6 groups do it. Most couldn’t row worth a lick. One almost knocked their George overboard running into a sand bar. The families had to wear life vest. The guys being George Washington had to stand. I hope they had floatation under his heavy colonial costumes but I doubt it, they are extras after all.
I was talking to a guy whose wife was the contact for the state parks; he drove down form Harrisburg to watch. We had a great time watching them try to row straight across with the river current.
I made the boys be careful as we rode our bikes back to the truck. The Suburbans left the half empty side of the parking lot without paying much attention. I guess there was no camera man around.
puddin:
The SUVs they were driving appeared to have Michigan plates,
My BF works on the PA. Turnpike and says that he sees Michigan plates all the time .
He says normally they are employees of whatever car manufacturer in Michigan that they are working for .
He says that even at the Pocono Raceway here the Nascar drivers almost always have Michigan plates on the cars that they use for getting around here locally , depending on what car manufacturer the drivers have contracts with so that would explain the Michigan plates...easy as that . The SUVs' used have contracts with TAR production whatever .
puddin:
We watched 6 groups do it. Most couldn’t row worth a lick. One almost knocked their George overboard running into a sand bar. The families had to wear life vest. The guys being George Washington had to stand. I hope they had floatation under his heavy colonial costumes but I doubt it, they are extras after all.
this would put 1 team way ahead or somewhere in between the next group of 2
It looked like it was the second leg of the race -- at least we heard from some other folks watching that they started with 10 flags. When we got there there were three flags left and we watched two teams complete the task.
the Linz Family & the Paolo's spec by description
1 team behind ??
puddin:
maybe Hunter Shroeder kid ?? Maybe a Paolo kid ? not sure .
The Bransons ~
the Gaghans~
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