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EP5:' We're Getting out of the Country Girls '
gingerman28:
This is indeed a hard one to put together, but here is a first try which is probably way off but lets start somewhere:
Thursday, July 14 between 1 and 3AM, teams depart The Preservation Hall Pit Stop, New Orleans.
Sometime later, and it looks to be again after sunset the teams arrive in Panama City, Panama (flights arrive between 8 and 11PM whether coming from New Orleans via Houston or from Belize City)
Shot of Paolos looking very tired in van probably coming into city from Panama City Airport. According to our earlier spoiler this would be the evening of July 16. So we have a time gap here which can not be accounted for.
Sunday, July 17 starts with teams arriving (perhaps during the night from the bus station in Panama City) at the visitors center at the Miraflores Lock on the Panama Canal.
Clues here may lead somewhere else first, but then we have choice of Fast Forward or Baseball Park. Paolos choose FF and also perhaps the Gaghans. The clue tells them to take the School Type Bus to a dock area to find the task. Bungee Jump off high crane. Probably like other FF, he who gets there first has first shot at the task (a la South African water cooling tower)
Teams going to the ball park run into a real ROADBLOCK again. Only one play er from each team can get up to bat first. Player must get a safe hit off the pitcher. Maybe teams have to alternate (a la ice bar in Stockholm) or each team gets to stay at bat until successful and then the next team gets up to bat. This latter seems unfair, so perhaps they alternate at bats.
At the end of the roadblock, they must find a white van with driver and direct him to the Smithsonian Instition's dock near Gamboa about 40 minutes across the peninsula. Here the teams face a DETOUR (1)they must take boat across the river/canal to the Isle Barro Colorado and do somekind of bird watch - find a certain number of birds (fake) mark them on their chart and when finished get the directions to the pits stop - perhaps back on the mainland at the Gamboa Resort Hotel. or (2) they must go into town and find a local dance hall and find a praticular dancer doing the hootchy cootchy. And then to the pit stop.
All of the action probably takes place on one day. And I think from the various shots of the small boats out on the river/lake/canal some of which are in the sun and some or in shadows we have boats going to an from certian places. Perhaps the pits stop is not back at Gamboa but on another island since we do have a shot of the Paolos also in a boat.
In any case it is a NONELIMINATION LEG and the loosers coninue on: my guess either the Gaghans or Weavers.
This isn't really too solid so lets have some input. What bothers me is the time gap at the beginning. Did the teams have an extra long 48 hour rest stop in New Orleans or did they go to Beliize as rumored and that was completely wiped out. We'll have to be extra vigilant on clothing, times, and airport shots (if any)
Chateau d If:
supsandalee, I don't know how to make it have a scale but there is the measure tool.
You just go clicky click along and it adds up the distance for you.
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supsandalee:
Thanks I got it to work. So it's about 2 miles from the Miraflores Visitors Center to the dock that looks it may have water taxis. One mile of it is straight down those tracks. If they had to wait a while for a bus they might take off walking. And if you had 2 miles to walk you probably would just walk it and not run. They would be walking to the southeast. Does the shot look like they could be walking southeast?
I know it's pure speculation but we seem to have alot of speculation this episode.
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puddin:
If it helps I think these pictures go together ??
Chateau d If:
--- Quote ---Does the shot look like they could be walking southeast?
--- End quote ---
That's the thing. The sun never comes from the southeast in this crazy place (in the winter it can, but we have July). |(
That's why I thought they had to be going toward the Northwest toward a setting sun.
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