I thought the general rule on TV shows is that it is okay to discuss it (including who was eliminated) after the show has aired. What is the purpose of having these TV threads if we can’t discuss what happened in the episode?
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Ooooooooh! I thought it was a season spoiler … hence, the spoiler alert.
Yeah, if the show has aired it’s not a spoiler; it’s just talking about the show, lol.
OK, went back and looked. YES! Glad Rex is gone. I hold his father coaching the Eagles against him. 
With all due respect, I gave fair warning that I was mentioning something some (not all just some) might not want to read.
I was away on vacation last week and missed episode 1—so what did I do? I avoided opening the thread until I had watched the episode and caught up.
Again, with all due respect, how long are we expected to wait before commenting on what happened on an episode that aired nationally???
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See my comment above. It’s only a spoiler if it’s about something that hasn’t aired. I thought you were posting a Reality Steve spoiler or something like that. What you posted wasn’t a spoiler at all.
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Funny how map reading seems to have become a lost art, although “getting lost” or “not reading the directions” has been the downfall of many teams through the seasons.
So how many people when you use your car GPS are in the mode where the map is oriented in your direction vs always oriented north?
The daughter in the father/daughter team said that this was the first time she’s navigated without her phone. One person (can’t remember who) was commenting about how tough it was to use a compass because the streets keep turning. Penn and Kim Holderness had those skills mastered.
The Big Brothers couple after their disastrous yodeling challenge did say that their navigational strengths was an advantage, which proved to be true.
I used to think I was navigationally challenged until I met dh. He is the worst, and I think relying on the GPS has made it worse. It’s tree then tree then tree … he’s never noticing the forest, if that makes sense.
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Fun Episode! Isn’t Austria beautiful? If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get to see Vienna, Salzburg, or part of Switzerland, as all are nearby. We bought little lederhosen and dirndls (outfits they were wearing) for our grandchildren.
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My husband and I are pretty bad, gpa has lessened the arguments a bit (I’m the driver). My 26 year old daughter is so bad, if not for gps we would’ve lost her for good years ago. She lives 40 minutes away, we live in her childhood home, she’s been gone for several years and she still relies on gps to here and back.
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I took several cross country solo road trips, pre GPS. I never had a problem using a map until it needed to be folded back up!
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That sounds like dh! After we bought our house, we recruited a bunch of friends to help us move. He got lost trying to find our new place.
Anyone else remember using paper Triptiks from AAA for road-trips?
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On a road trip to Lake Superior the year before the pandemic I used the GPS, my husband used his phone and my brother used a print road atlas. I was a pretty good navigator back when we only had paper maps. I was surprised that one of the women on the Amazing Race said she couldn’t read a map. Didn’t she have time to learn once she knew she was a competitor?
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Yeah, she should have learned to read a map. Then again, many racers do not learn how to drive a stick, Survivor contestants neglect to learn how to swim or start a fire, etc. etc. Last year there was the very out-of-shape former college athletes (married couple) who came back to resume the race 18 months later in the same poor shape as before.
Some think they can talk or smile their way through anything…
Although last week I liked all the teams, I was glad to see the coaches go. And a little upset that Phil seemed sorrier than usual to see them go. He’s not supposed to play favorites. I think my next choice to go will be the motivational speakers. She seems like the nicest person but an annoying racer and I think her teammate is discovering that too. I loved the Jamaican father talking about how he wanted to be a good father since he didn’t have one and how he learned all his daughters dance and cheerleading routines. And how she seemed proud of that too. I do hope the challenges get a little more exciting, though. That was a lot of time spent yodelling. I can read a map and I love reading a map. I don’t trust gps and have been lost out of range of a cell signal making it useless. Never again.
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Absolutely! Used triptiks extensively on a cross-country trip to the west coast. At one point we were going to find a friend working at a National Forest camp. Being a girl from the NYC suburbs, I was definitely nervous as we blindly followed this map taking us through the middle of nowhere. But amazingly, we found our friend.
GPS is kind of like a triptik - you see where you are supposed go for the next few turns, but not the overall view of the journey.
Was a good episode, except both challenges were similar in having to mimic something - the yodeling and then the dance or bells. Would have been more interesting to have a physical activity challenge for one of them.
Agree, Phil should get together with Jeff P. Survivor has had some great combo physical and mental challenges.
I have to say I am now a bigger fan of the Australian and Canadian versions of the show. The challenges in the US version have become too watered down over the years.