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Finale ' 5 Continents...10 Countries...And More than 59 thousand Miles! '
Boingo:
How's this for a weird connection of the day. Appears that "French Maid" outfits are all the rage for the Cosplay (Cos-play-zoku) crowd in Japan. This might explain why E&J are carrying a girl dressed as a French Maid in the sedan chair. Now for the twist, just so happens the Cosplay crowd hang out at Yoyogi Park by the Harajuku Station (near Shibuya-ku). This is getting weird. :-\ :snicker: Not sure it means anything, though. ;)
Boingo:
After learning that another word for "sedan chair" is "palanquin", I stumbled across a bit of weird Japan/US history. This may also tie in with the maid outfit in a strange way. As this is TARs first landing in Japan, could the producers be twisted enough to include some historical scenes from Admiral Perry's arrival in Japan? It all revolves around the tale of "Tojin Okichi". Weird isn't the word for it. :o
I'll leave it to you to decide if this fits in.
http://www.japanwelcomesyou.com/cssweb/display.cfm?sid=1218
Slowhatch:
If it helps any, I found two types of palanquin: the norimono, used for the upper-class (resembles the cap); and the air-conditioned kago, for people like me.
dogparent:
Do we think that the final task is inside Red Rocks Amphitheater (like looking under stadium seats)? The only reason i think it's not is there aren't really "seats" in Red Rocks -- just long concrete things to sit on which would make clue concealment hard.
There is rock climbing in Red Rocks Park-- but they've kind of already done that earlier in the show. I'm puzzled -- Ray & Yo running up to the lower right entrance -- but the frats / BJT cab LOOKS like they went up to the top circle lot by the finish mat and it looked like that was where the clue box was. >:( GRRRRRRRR must.know.more.
Boingo:
FWIW, Karchita at RTVW board posted this spoiler about Alaska sighting.
--- Quote ---It seems pretty certain they go north from Anchorage, and one way the pieces would fit is something like this:
Arrive in Anch.
Fly Rust's to a lake to the north, like Nancy Lake or Big Lake. The detour is to chose between whatever they do on the lake - bore a hole throught the ice and go ice fishing? or maybe drive a dog sled across the lake. They often set up choices between a searching task (sorta like ice fishing) that depends on luck for how fast you can do it and something that may be quicker but harder, like trying to get a dozen dogs to do what you want them to do (believe me, not easy). So that makes some sense for detour options.
Next, get in a car and drive south to the Roadblock, on the way back to Anchorage. That could be something with the musk ox or at Indepedent Mine. That fits with the shots from around Palmer that you saw and also fits with the filming spoiler, which I had not heard before.
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