I don't understand why so many folks here at the KT are rooting for Rachel and Brendon when so many folks here at the KT were so adamantly against Boston Rob and Amber when they were on TAR. The folks who were against Rob and Amber kept saying that because she'd won $1 million on Survivor that they shouldn't be on TAR. Well, Rachel won $1 on Big Brother, so why is it ok for her but not Amber? I think that some of the reasons they've gone to India so many times are that seeing the plight of the people who live there might awaken a humanitarian spirit in those who watch the show; the country can certainly use the money the producers pay in order to film in the country; the show undoubtedly uses (and pays) local folks to work behind the scenes while they are "in county" which is greatly needed; and there are a lot of local customs, etc., that make for good challenges. I like the Kentucky guys. They are having a good time, they're not giving each other grief, and they're playing fairly. And speaking of Boston Rob and Amber, Rob showed a lot of smarts when they were on. Remember the challenge where they had to take a specific number of hardbound books from some store and deliver them to a library and put them all on the shelves? They had to use a handtruck to move them from one location to the other. Well, Rob figured out how to stack the correct number of books on the handtruck so that they only had to make ONE trip between the two locations, while all of the other teams had to make at least two trips. Then, there was that awful meat-eating challenge where one team member had to eat an incredible amount of really gross stuff. If you didn't finish a challenge, you had to endure a two-hour penalty at that location before you could move on to the next task. Well, Rob knew that there was no way that he could eat that stuff, so he said to Amber that all he had to do was officially say he was sitting out the challenge, then wait a few minutes and then talk one other team into sitting it out, too. Because he had started the penalty first, it would guarantee that at least one team would be behind them so they wouldn't get eliminated. He had no trouble at all convincing another team to sit out that challenge, and I think at least one other team decided to sit it out, too. So... Phil made a big mistake on this week's episode when he said to the team who had the two-hour penalty at the pit stop that this was the first time in TAR history that a team that had to wait through a penalty hadn't ended up being eliminated -- because Rob and Amber did it during their season.

LOL I don't think the ugly Americans are the Kentucky team. The have been very respectful and thankful for any help they have asked for. I can understand them just fine! I think they are having a ball and really appreciating the trip. I couldn't believe it when he whistled at the woman walking by the taxi. That took me by surprise! LOL I, too, wanted to shove a salami down her throat. And I don't think it has been NEAR as awful as some years. I remember seasons where all but one or two teams bickered the whole trip. Remember the one guy who people thought might be abusing his wife? I can't remember their names, but it was awful. I have heard that those remote control helicopters are very hard to control. It cracked me up when Mr. Pilot thought it might actually be a REAL copter! lol Very touching to split the money with the one contestant from Kentucky. He said that his daughter is on quite a few prescriptions for respiratory problems.

If I didn't know the word, I would have just started trying letter combos, sooner or later you MIGHT hit on it or give yourself an idea. To sit there and worry or complain was a giant waste of time. I heard his mom say "I can't help you" at least once. I'm sure they weren't allowed to give them ideas of words after the one went to the letters. I like when teams use the U-turn, it's just smart racing to try to slow down the good competition. I think they've had to do both tasks before, haven't they? Or was it a time-penalty? Maybe both. I think that Luke used the U-turn to keep his favorite girl team in it, he was buying them time. I could be wrong about that, but it seems like those 2 girls were doing OK without that help. The problem now is going to be to get the other teams to trust them, seems like they may be thinking they're a bit sneaky. Although, eliminating the tough competition helped ALL those other teams, if Amanda and Kris hadn't gone, some other team would have. I liked the wood stacking challenge, we stack wood all the time and there is an art to it, but that wood was nice and small and looked fairly easy to work with. I had to laugh when the sisters started out by sorting the wood. That would have taken forever, they obviously started to do it on the fly because they finished up pretty quickly. The Siberian men sure had a thing for pretty American women, didn't they? I found that a bit opportunistic on their parts.... (taps cheek, gets hug or kiss, ick.) If you have to ask, it's not completely voluntary. The brothers- I liked them at first, but that one brother seems snotty to me, I'm not liking him as much these days. But, changing tasks was smart for them, their height would have made stacking that pile of wood difficult, I'm surprised they didn't figure that out at the start. The house was right in front of them? I missed that part. Darn! Victor was a little better Sunday night, I thought. I guess his goof-up last week taught him a few things. I'm glad, I really like Tammy. I don't really have a favorite team right now, and I don't have one I really dislike either, which takes the stress out of the race for me. lol

Gosh, lets see if I remember this. The sisters got to the mat just ahead of Victor & Tammy. But, sisters could not be checked in because they did not have their travel documents. They had to go back to the boat yard, get their stuff then, back to the finish mat. Michael & Mark decided to go back for their back packs before they did the challange. They used most of their money on the taxi back to the boat yard and then back to the location of the challange. They got to the challange, finished it and headed to the Temple where the finish mat was. They did not have enough money to pay the full taxi fare so they gave some of their own personal 'stuff' to the taxi driver as payment. They got to the mat before the sisters returned but, got the time penalty, 4 hours?, because they used there own stuff as payment. The sisters got back to the mat, were checked in as the 4th team to arrive, no other penality. Michael & Mark were then checked in as the last team to arrive but, it was an non elimination leg of the race. The catch is, on the next leg of the race they will have extra stuff to accomplish. Plus, there was time left on their penality after the girls returned, that time, about 30 minutes (?) will be added to their start time. They will start the next leg of the race last, plus what ever was left on their penality. OK, Kids...did I get that right? sooey