Find a local with a dumbphone, duck into a nearby Internet cafe, ask a hotel concierge, get a friendly local to come with you, pay a taxi driver to drive in front of you, or just ask around.
I guess that was a rather lackluster finale. I just finished watching it and don’t really remember it. At least the best couple out of the three won.
I knew there was a reason why we kept on seeing Hayley saying she was right when Hayley and Blair got lost.
What goes around comes around.
Yeah, she finally got the important role and she screwed it up, no surprise. And even then she was wimping out (“Help me make a decision!” “Uh, I wasn’t up there…”) She seems to be the terrible sort of person that is quick to point out when they’re right but avoids responsibility when they’re wrong.
Aside from the selfie-matching task, too many easy tasks. The only thing that really required any skill were the football tasks (catching a ball, kicking an XP) and spying the flags. And neither of those were really difficult. The rest was just straight-ahead “do this” tasks (the cowboy one in particular was clearly very controlled by the real cowboys) and taxi drama.
Well, I guess that’s over. I hope they never do this kind of gimmick again.
Annoying Nurse seemed to have mellowed over the course of the race, but was still outstandingly annoying. “I want you tell me if it was that building!” How the frak would he know, lady? He wasn’t up there. I’m glad they lost and the more pleasant team Laura & Taylor won. I don’t think we saw them bicker all race.
Or in the case of Rob and Amber, be world wide celebrities so there would always be someone in every country who recognized you and was willing to help.
I hope they consider the “blind date” thing a failed experiment. I want to get back to regular TAR - with more challenging challenges! (And hopefully the return of zut’s Taxi Assessments)
Was she the one who thought it was shady (what was the word she used) when other teams tried to follow them leaving the stadium, but started looking for a team to follow when she couldn’t find the flags?
The football task helped knock Team Truckstop out of the Race. They were the first at the stadium and the last to leave. Part of that was because their taxi couldn’t stay and wait for them (do you think they really tried to get him to stay? We didn’t see it on camera). Do teams not know that taxis have dispatchers somewhere? If your cabbie can’t stick around, tell him to call HQ and send another car that can.
I believe she said “shystie.” And, yes, Hayley was supremely annoying again. At least she did take responsibility in the end, saying it was her fault they lost the lead. Blair should get some kind of award–he was a model of patience.
I’m glad Jenny and Julani didn’t win after they took the lead in the final challenge. Julani seemed okay, but Jenny was annoying.
I think the best team won. They ran a solid race, didn’t bicker, and seemed generally pleasant.
I liked the “truckstop” couple, but they were lucky to be in the final leg at all–they probably should have been gone weeks ago. Did they ever explain why he has never met her son before? I mean, I understand her wanting to be careful and all, but I remember at one point they said they’d been dating for over 8 months. That’s a long time to date someone and not meet their children.
As a matter of fact, I thought that I heard Mike actually tell the cabbie that he could leave after he had dropped them at the stadium. It seemed to me he said something like “That’s all” or “That’s it,” or something like that, which the cabbie could have taken to mean that he was dismissed. I wonder if he got paid, though; I would think he wouldn’t leave until he had his money.
I liked Mike and Rochelle as well–I actually thought Rochelle was pretty hot, with all her tattoos and such–but I could tell that Mike’s lack of football skills were going to doom them. They’d been hanging on by a thread for awhile now.
I was at least a little heartened that Hayley recognized that she had goofed up at the tower, and was blaming herself rather than Blair in the end. Nice of Phil to rub it in, too. “Will you ever forget that tower?”
At least now we know why they had them taking all those damn selfies!