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Amazing Race Season 36, Episode 10 part 1, "The longest minute of my life"
Film date: probably 2022-11-14
The last leg ended in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. This leg starts off Sosúa beach. Teams travel out on a catamaran and get to jump into the ocean in two groups:
Group #1 departs 10:00:
Ricky & Cesar
Rod & Leticia
Group #2 departs 10:15:
Juan & Shane
Amber & Vinny
The first task is to swim over to a buoy and grab a clue attached to a rope under it. Everybody got cyclops and a pair of flippers on the boat so it is not that difficult. Teams grab this clue in the following order:
1. Ricky & Cesar
2. Rod & Leticia, just after #1
3. Juan & Shane
4. Amber & Vinny
Once teams have the clue they can swim in to shore and open it on the beach.
Detour: Dive trip or Rum sip
In Dive trip teams must assemble four dive rigs and load them onto a boat. Once approved they must help launch the boat to get their next clue.
In Rum sip teams must make their way to the Diversity bar and take drinks orders from six pirates and then make and serve the drinks. The task is made simpler by them being able to handle one order at a time. And they have a recipe book which says what should go into each drink and which kind of glass it should be served in.
Everybody chooses Rum sip. The pirates are a bit cliche, they sit there singing and two of them have parrots on their shoulders, there is also a treasure chest with a skull on it.
Teams must get their drinks approved by the bartender before they can deliver them to the thirsty pirates. The second group of teams just about get their first drinks approved when the first teams are done, so we can assume it took about 3 minutes to make each drink.
Teams complete this detour in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar, made 8 drinks when they only needed to do 6
2(+0) Rod & Leticia
3(+0) Juan & Shane
4(+0) Amber & Vinny
Route info: Travel by taxi to Cabarete beach to find your next clue.
Production has arranged a bunch of taxis taxis which are waiting nearby. While traveling to the next location Rod points out that he has hit the road block limit so Leticia has to do the upcoming road blocks for their team.
Teams reach the next clue box (13km) in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar
2(+0) Rod & Leticia, seconds after #1
3(+0) Juan & Shane
4(+0) Amber & Vinny
Road block: Who wants to take a stand?
In this road block contestants must stand on a windsurfing board with the sail up for 60 seconds.
This turns out to be something Ricky & Cesar has NOT done before. So Rod feels they have a chance to pass the boys. But then the first time Leticia falls of the board she is hit in the head by the mast.
"
It took me a second but I jumped back on", Leticia
She gets back up on the board and seems to be able to complete the task on her next attempt. After Leticia has complete the task we get a number of shots of Ricky falling off the surf board. He is clearly struggling.
"
That minute is like the longest minute of your life", Ricky gets the title
Ricky feels the pressure, first Leticia passes him and then after a while Juan arrive and also fairly quickly gets it. In the end it took Ricky about 30 minutes to complete this task.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
| 1(+1) | Rod & Leticia* | (7-5) | On her 2nd shown attempt |
| 2(+0) | Juan* & Shane | (6-6) | On his 3rd attempt |
| 3(+0) | Ricky* & Cesar | (6-6) | On his 21st attempt |
| 4(+0) | Amber & Vinny* | (5-7) | On his 2nd shown attempt |
The next clue tells teams to travel by the marked taxis to Olympus beach where they will find their next clue on a dune buggy.
"
They do have weaknesses", Amber, about Ricky & Cesar
"
The dragon can be slain", Vinny
Teams arrive to the dune buggies (6km) in the following order:
1(+0) Rod & Leticia
2(+0) Juan & Shane
3(+0) Ricky & Cesar
4(+0) Amber & Vinny
On each dune buggy is a clue which tells teams to make their way to Wilson's bar. They must get there by following the road in their dune buggies and then switch into a tandem kayak and paddle across the river to the last pit stop before the finale.
We note that teams leave their backpacks when they pick up the dune buggies.
The driving is about 1.5km down the one road and it is pretty hard to mess up. You can fail at the kayaking but nobody does. Rod & Leticia tip around once when they start paddling but they quickly get back up on the kayak again.
"
Hope is not lost", Vinny hope they will be able to catch up
When Ricky & Cesar arrive to the kayak pick up point Ricky has a hard time getting out of his seat belt. Cut to Amber & Vinny approaching. But we are not fooled. The first time we get to see both teams in the same frame is when we see Amber & Vinny kayaking while Ricky & Cesar are speaking with Phil on the mat.
Teams reach Phil in the following order:
1(+0) Rod & Leticia, Win Expedia points for a trip to Rome, Italy
2(+0) Juan & Shane
3(+0) Ricky & Cesar
4(+0) Amber & Vinny, are eliminated
And on the mat Vinny falls to his knees and proposes to Amber, and she answers yes.
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I might not be going home with a million dollars but I am going home with a ring", A very happy Amber
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