TV: Amazing Race 12: Ep 7

This leg of the race turned out to be scenic but fairly non-eventful. The granfather / grandson team took a fast forward that involved getting tattoos and ended up winning a trip to Cancun. The Goths may have gotten lost on the roads of Italy and finished last. Luckily it was a non-elimination pit stop but they face a new twist of a Speed Bump (an extra challenge) in the next leg.

The teams were bunched up pretty quickly when taking a ferry across the Adriatic to Italy. At that point teams had to drive to a town called Empoli. Some of the teams did not know about road construction and ended up either waiting in traffic or taking some windy side roads to the next clue box.

From there, the Road Block challenge had one of the team members riding an ultralight plane over Tuscany in search of a clue from the sky. It was almost a needle in the haystack style challenge. Either TK had a particularly hard time seeing the clue, or he just loved the scenery so much that he went back up three times while all the other teams passed him up. I do not have much of a fear of flying, but I imagine that in an ultralight I might have grabbed something so tight, there would be a hand shaped dent in it.

TK and Rachel had a tough time overall. First they left a clue behind before going to Empoli and had to turn around and retrieve it. But they were fortunate someone told them a faster route to take with the construction going on. Then TK could not see the clue from the sky that told them to go to Vinci. Then they had a flat tire driving to the pit stop.

Somehow TK and Rachel still beat the Goths who had their own car breakdown and started to snipe at each other. Ron also seemed mean to his daughter again. Nate and Jen continued sniping at each other yet always managed to finish near the top.

The tattoos seemed kind of small. It was funny to hear the grandfather hope they would have to shave their heads instead. Tattoos supposedly can be removed these days, but I have little clue on the details of cost. As much as I avoid getting a tattoo, I suppose I might keep the FF under the circumstances.

Next week we get to see if the Goths can survive doing an extra challenge. Somehow they don't seem to be very long or require much physical endurance this season. Maybe that changes next week.