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Team Glee makes another questionable choice by switching tasks to Check Out when they can’t get their antenna tuned right. This rarely serves anyone well, especially when they were virtually finished with the task and just gave up. You just don’t switch tasks unless you absolutely have to, which I don’t think they did.

Michael & Kevin have risen from starting this leg in seventh to finishing it at the Pitstop in third. This is all due to the work of the old man too. Similarly, Chad & Stephanie leap four spots from eighth in England to fourth in Ghana.

The good news for all of the teams still unable to find the Detour shop is that all three cabbies were lost in the same direction and converge on the same spot to ask for directions. Gary & Mallory and the doctors get on the right track, or backtrack, as the case may be, but Andie & Jenna have lost their momentum.

As they get back from the last commercial break, the show is flying with the last three teams getting to the Detour and the doctors and mom/daughter teams going for Check Out and dad and daughter going with Tune In as Team Tat finishes. Dating Jill & Thomas reach the Pitstop in fifth place.

While these three teams appear to get through the Detour without incident, traffic has become the second equalizer on this leg as five teams are all within minutes of each other and we get another glimpse of crazy Ghana cabs. As Jonathan notes, “These cabs are nuts. But we aren’t complaining as long as we’re not dying.” To which Connor responds, “I am just so proud that I haven’t soiled myself.” So very true, because it is making me a nervous wreck just watching them.

Team Glee pulls up to the market right next to the doctors and delivers on their guess that they can beat the ladies to the mat. Officially Jonathan & Connor are number six and Nat and Kat are number seven. Team Tat has survived another non-stellar performance, this time for Nick’s lack of salesmanship, and hit the Pitstop as number eight.

We know this for sure: the team eliminated will be a parent/child team as Gary & Mallory and Andie & Jenna are the only ones unaccounted for at the pitstop. Phil decides to torture Gary & Mallory with a long silence before letting them know that they are team number nine.

With many, many tears flowing, reunited Andie & Jenna are eliminated. The good news is that even though they are no longer in the race, they will have a couple of weeks being sequestered until the last Pitstop to continue their reunion without cameras in their face because going back to the real world.

Well, I picked Andie & Jenna to be eliminated next week, so I wasn’t too far off the mark.
Next week, we get more hot fun in Africa with heated blow-ups from the so far jovial Nick and what looks like a race-ending heat stroke for Michael. Until then, enjoy your first full week of October.

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