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Married Joe and Heidi, father/daughter Steve and Allie, the cowboys, Team South Carolina Caite and Brent and brothers Dan and Jordan get to the metro train first with Joe confidently saying that this will definitely get them to the airport first. (See my previous remarks about undercover cop team's bragging for how I think this will play out.) Grandma Jodi and Shannon and Michael and Louie just miss the train and have to wait 20 minutes for the next one.

Cut to Union Station as Team Big Brother, Monique and Shawne, Adrian and Dana, and Carol and Brandy, get on the bus. We get a glimpse of Big Brother Jordan asking if their destination city of Santiago is in China. Hey, at least she got the first three letters of the name right but was on the wrong continent that is a Pacific Ocean away. Between her and Caite, the producers must have sold their souls to the casting gods for a season of ignorant sound bites.

Well, Joe was wrong. The train didn't get there first. After a dash to the ticket counter, Adrian and Dana, Team Big Brother and Monique and Shawne get the tickets on the first flight, which leaves everyone else in their rearview. As the milling about the airport occurs, with a snarky impersonation, Jordan recreates Caite's pageant meltdown for Brandy and Carol.

Cowboys Jet and Cord fail in executing the good idea of doing a currency exchange at the airport to save time. They exchange all their US dollars for Brazilian currency, because it was the closest thing to Chilean they could get at LAX. You can't see it but I am shaking head in embarrassment for them.

Apparently, Carol is psychic because as they are walking through the airport, she says that they are praying bad weather in the first flight's connecting city or mechanical problems with their plane...which is exactly what happens. Due to maintenance problems the first flight is delayed and those three teams opt for tickets on the second flight with everyone else.

The teams land and head to the buses that will take them to the town of Valparaiso, 60 miles from Santiago. The first bus has Team Big Brother, Adrian and Dana, Team South Carolina and Monique and Shawne. The currency faux pas by the cowboys prevents them from getting on bus number two with Brandy and Carol, Joe and Heidi, brothers Dan and Jordan, and father/daughter Steve and Allie. So that leaves Jet and Cord on the last bus with Jody and Shannon and Michael and Louie.

After grabbing cabs from the bus station, the first bus's teams reach our first Roadblock. This task requires a member of the team to walk across a cable stretched over 300 feet and up in the air 120 feet. Team South Carolina is first at the Roadblock and Caite takes the challenge. She shows a daredevil side by just blazing through it. Team Big Brother shows up and because of Jeff's fear of heights, Jordan steps up but with some apprehension. Next brother Dan is the third one on the line, followed Joe, Allie, and Carol. Without considering her fear of heights, Carol starts at shaking like a leaf.

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