TV: Amazing Race: All-Stars Ep 2

The theme of this episodes race revolved around paying attention to details. Missing one instruction about speed limits cost Kevin and Drew the race while Romber cruised to another victory.

The Road Block challenge took the teams into a staged boardroom meeting. Letters on buttons or pens or shirts had to be combined to find a secret word that would get them the next clue. Eric should have been the first to figure things our, but sort of outsmarted himself. This allowed Dustin to be the first to solve the puzzle. The interesting thing was seeing Amber being nice to other teams, which did not please Rob too much. I guess Rob still does not believe that karma has been an influence in many of these races.

The Detour challenge had teams choosing between putting a giant tire on a giant machine or moving some gravel around. It turned out that the gravel was easier to do while the bolting wheels required some attention to detail, and that cost some teams a bunch of time. Teri and Ian almost made a fatal error by not knowing where the cars where. Then a bunch of teams took a wrong turn, but ultimately it was the insistence of not driving over 40 km/h that cost Kevin and Drew the race.

Outside of the interesting terrain that teams had to drive through to get to the Pit Stop, there was not much in this episode that might make viewers want to book a trip to northern Chile. Almost all of my international trips have been to Europe and Asia, so it's hard for me to comment on places in South America (unless they ever visit Bogota, Columbia).

There also weren't any big surprises in the order of finish. But this is the Amazing Race, so who knows what the future holds. :)