I would love to, but too far...

Same for me. I'd be over in a heartbeat to cheer and boohiss, but I'm a bit too far north.

I'm too far east.

Um...I posted that this began at 8:30 earlier in this thread.

My Yahoo page says 8:00.

My television is showing 60 Minutes.

This might have something to do with football. Grrrr.

Edited to Add: I thought the clock on my computer was fast, but it's not. I resume my previous grumbling about football. I want to watch the Amazing Race, not an interview with Howard Stern!

Episode #1 Review...

The race is off to a good start, I enjoyed this episode much more than the survivor season opener.

I'll put my comments in a spoiler tag for all your west coast folks who may not have seen this yet, oh except for this one. What a BITCH! I'll be looking forward to your downfall.

This season certainly has gotten off to an awesome start.



I have my favourite teams right now, and happily, a lot of them ended up in the top five.

And, that's all I'm going to say until you all have seen it.

(BTW, Moonliner...I am 100% in agreement with your comments...especially your last line!)

I was bummed to see the Muslims go. It would have been interesting to see how they handled the race and how people they met reacted to them.

I don't have any favorites at this point, although I do admire Sarah.

I could do without Kentuckians or single moms. The moms seem to spend a lot of their time bitching about other teams (or at least that's what we were shown).

Yes, but if you close your eyes the chick from Kentucky sounds just like Dolly Parton.

Well, now that the show is over and done with, here are my thoughts.

Balil and Sa'eed got a raw deal in being eliminated so early, and I was sad to see Vipul and Arti get eliminated too. But, hey, it's a race of surprises. Like we've seen in Big Brother and Survivor, they might bring a team back from elimination. I hope they don't, and I'm not even sure how they would even do it, but you never know.

I've got a list of tentative favourites, including Tyler/James, Duke/Lauren, Sarah/Peter (who came in first, second and third in the first leg, BTW).

And while I never thought I would say this in a million years considering that in past seasons I wanted these types of teams to get eliminated first...Dustin and Kandice are not bad people. They may have gotten lost on the way to the roadblock, but they never really gave up.

Erwin and Godwin could have the potential to be a comic relief team too...but I want to know what they were thinking bringing water pistols to an AIRPORT. Sure, they were water guns, but still...

Right now, Rob/Kimberly and Lyn/Karlyn are teams I'd like to see meet an early exit. I'm getting a "Colin/Christy" vibe from Rob and Kimberly, and as for Lyn/Karlyn, there was NO NEED for them to make those comments about Sarah.

I put Sarah on a totally different list. I agree with Lyn/Karlyn. One second Sarah is espousing her skills in the triathlon and her overall physical prowess and the next she's getting early boarding on the plane because of her disability and then literally crying to a cab driver that they need a cab due to an "emergency" and pointing to her leg. Which is it? Is she a capable athlete who's up for the race or a helpless cripple for whom catching a cab rates declaring an emergency.