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The Amazing Race All Stars Go to Guam

Well, we are finally down to the leg that will tell us who the final three contestants will be. Unless there is another non elimination round, but I don’t think so. Let’s recap. In completely usual TAR style, the teams leave in the order that they arrived. Dustin & Kandice are the first to receive the next clue. It tells them to get to the airport and fly 7500 miles to Guam. Once there, they will drive themselves to Anderson AIR Force Base where they pick up a military escort that will take them to the tower they must climb to get their next clue.

Dustin & Kandice manage to get on the 3 am ferry to Hong Kong. Charla & Mirna and Eric & Danielle manage to get on the 4 am ferry. Danny & Oswald get on the 6 am ferry. The first three teams manage to get on the same flight to Tokyo where they will have a layover to Guam. Danny & Oswald miss that flight, but get on another flight to Tokyo that will get them on the same connecting flight, assuming that they will be able to make the connection. Luckily for them, they do manage to barely make the connecting flight, much to the dismay of all the other teams.

When they arrive at their destination, it is closed. Big surprise. All the teams return in the morning and choose an escort. No, not THAT kind of escort you naughty beast. They must then climb up like 7,000 stairs to the top of this tower to get their next clue. (OK, maybe not 7,000). The clue they get is a Detour. The teams can choose between Care Package and Engine Care. In Care package teams must fill up a drop box with 500 pounds of supplies like those that would be dropped off in an aid mission. Once the box is filled, they will take place in an air drop drill sending the package. Not a lot of muscle, but the mission takes at least 30 minutes. In Engine Care teams choose an engine on a bomber and scrub the thing clean. Spotless. Like Military clean. Whew.

Charla & Mirna are the only ones that choose Care Package. The other teams have quite a hard time scrubbing the engines to perfection. Even Dustin & Kandice are not able to work their charm on the Sergeant. Ha Ha. It is dirty hard work but all of them are finished before Charla & Mirna are done with their training exercise. Once they complete this task, the teams find out that they must then drive 20 miles to the US Naval base where a naval escort will take them to their next destination.

Dustin & Kandice are the first to arrive at the Naval Base. Here they are taken to a location where they find a Roadblock that asks them “Who is ready to search far and wide?” In this roadblock one team member must take part in a naval search and rescue operation. Using the provided GPS tracking device, they must find one of four training officers. The office then programs new information into their unit, giving them a new course to follow. Upon reaching this new destination, the team member must call in a helicopter using a radio and smoke grenade to ask for extraction. They will then be airlifted to their teammate and get their next clue.

Dustin actually did a great job on this task. Danielle, on the other hand was less than spectacular. But she just shone compared with Charla. The funniest thing was as she is leaving to go do the task, Mirna tells her. Follow the instructions, you should not press any buttons. Now, this may seem like an obvious statement, but Mirna definitely knows Charla. Charla either can’t help but press the big candy-like buttons, or doesn’t realize that touching the screen IS touching the buttons. Her escort tells her many many many times “Ma’am, I told you not to touch the screen” and has to re-set it all for her. Duh!

Dustin gets back to Kandice first and they get the next clue that tells them to drive 11 miles to the Fort Soledad, the Pit Stop for this leg of the race. The last team to check in here WILL be eliminated. So, obviously they arrive at the Pit Stop and win ATV’s. Woo Hoo.

Back to the rest of the race: Danny & Oswald manage to catch up and start running this leg too. Oswald takes off and does pretty well. He manages to get in the area he is looking for but takes a while to find the instructor hiding in the bushes. Charla also finally finds an instructor, and Danielle manages to get airlifted. Charla finally finds her way back ahead of Oswald. It looks like a real race to the finish.

The teams arrived in the following order:
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Charla & Mirna
4. Danny & Oswald
So, Danny & Oswald are really eliminated this time and not able to finish the race. I wonder what will happen next week. They are hoping that Charla & Mirna will win. I wonder if they will get their wish.

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Tags: The Amazing Race All Stars Guam Hong Kong detour elimination roadblock TAR reality TV

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Posted by Wendy on April 29, 2007 10:30 PM
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