Now I KNOW the budget has been cut because for the second week in a row, the Amazing Racers had to take a bus to their next destination. The cowboys continue to dominate and that's great. I'm also finding I don't absolutely hate Team Such As (Brent and Caite) and Team Big Brother (Jeff and Jordan). I hated Rob and Amber because they were arrogant and sneaky and thought the world owed them a living because they were big stars on Survivor (BTW, I know Rob is back on this new Survivor season, but I have gotten over him and don't even watch it.) These two reality-pretty teams aren't arrogant or nasty like Romber, so I am not broken up each week if they do well.
Caite and Brent paid for their good fortune in the looks department by contracting food poisoning and going to the hospital. While they were on the IVs, the lesbians were grilling the cowboys to find out how they found a quicker bus last leg. The cowboys were all "Oh, I want someone to care about me when they talk to me" and upset the lesbians were not making with the warm fuzzies. Hey, they were just trying to get information, you were under no obligation to tell them anything. Maybe they were confused by the use of the word "enigmatic." But, I don't mean to be mean. The cowboys are showing they're pretty smart and have made up for their mistake with getting the wrong money the first leg.
Once everyone got to Bariloche, it was just a matter of luck at the challenges. Of course Jet and Cord were going to breeze past the lasso task. We also found out that Brent can neither drive a stick or read a map, neither of the gay/straight brothers can drive worth a damn, and that the shorter cop only executed search warrants and never did a grid search--whatever that is. At the choice between finding the buried loot and riding the wooden polo horse, I would have taken the polo horse right away. Anything with a compass is going to screw me up as I found out at camp decades ago.
It's looking like the race will be dominated by the cowboys, Joe and Heidi and the lesbians. The father and daughter surged ahead to second, but I don't see them lasting there. The brothers, the cops, even the reality and pretty people will drop off. Thank god we're finally getting out of South America next week, getting on a plane and heading for Europe for some serious drinking and bungee jumping.
Sidenote: This morning on CBS Sunday Morning, they profiled Blake from Amazing Race 2 who is now a shoe entrepeneur and distributes shoes to improverished countries. Also Joel McHale has been showing more clips on the Soup of this Amazing Race than any other. Maybe it's becuase Jeff and Jordan--specifically Jordan--were so dumb on Big Brother. He said you'd have to be a brain-dead gerbil not to do well on this season.
Day 5--Bus from Puerto Vargas, Chile to Bariloche, Argentina. Arrive around 2:30 PM. Poker with the gnome. Lasso challenge. Wooden polo horse or buried treasure.
Jet and Cord win again (two wins so far). Prize: ten-day trip to Patagonia. But they were just there! Plus it's all earthquake-y now. A friend who lives in Santiago sent some pictures and it looks pretty bad there.
Leaderboard--
Jet and Cord (2 wins) Loot: two sailboats, trip to Patagonia
Jeff and Jordan (1 win) Loot: trip to Vancouver
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