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The remaining teams have ventured beyond Mickey D’s and gotten their clues also. Gary & Mallory are the only ones to go with the Past and the Globetrotters are bringing up the rear at Future. It’s not too dire for them because Vyxsin’s lack of navigation skills has morphed into a lack of patience for scrawny Kent’s inability to carry boxes of tubes up several flights of stairs. On the other hand, Margie has recovered and she and Luke are finished before the final teams get there. Jaime & Cara are the next to leave the Future with Jet & Cord on their heels.

Do you remember how I said that it was a smart move to follow Ron & Christina? Well, please forget I ever typed that. Their cabbie has taken them and their followers Zev & Justin and Kisha & Jen to the wrong community center. This allows Margie & Luke to get to the U-Turn first and they choose not to.

The Goths leave the Future with only the Globetrotters remaining and they hop in their cab proclaiming they will U-Turn anyone if they aren’t already hit with one. Gary & Mallory have finally successfully tested their memory at the Past challenge.

Feeling secure enough in their placement, Jet & Cord also opt out of U-Turning anyone but with a friendly assist to Goths and the Cheerleaders, there is a race to the U-Turn. With Kent & Vyxsin barely (and questionably) there first and in full view of Jaime & Cara, the Goths U-Turn them, despite their pleas to U-Turn Flight and Easy. Since the cheerleaders couldn’t convince them otherwise, they go ahead and U-Turn the Globetrotters themselves.

I don’t question using a U-Turn because it is part of the game but it seems irrational to U-Turn a team that is tied with you at the mat when there are clearly more teams trailing. Like Jaime & Cara, I would have chosen to use it against any of the others that are still behind because that would create more distance between them. But I also wouldn’t have run the race anything like these two passport-losing, directionally-challenged knuckleheads have this season.

The wanderers (Ron & Christina, Zev & Justin, and Kisha & Jen) breathe a sigh of relief that they are safe and all are heading to the Stone Forest. Gary & Mallory have also joined this merry band of misfits. There is still no clear front-runner at this point as the cowboys, Margie & Luke and the Goths are just now getting pointing in the right direction.

The Cheerleaders are at the Past pretty quickly and get through it on the first try, as the Globetrotters get their bad news. Everyone else is still trying to get to this elusive Stone Forest. Without much apparent effort, the Globetrotters mimic Jaime & Cara’s performance and knock out the Past task easily.

Aimless is the most apt description for the team’s journey to the Stone Forest. Kisha & Jen are the first to arrive and get the Roadblock clue. Ripping off Jurassic Park’s tagline, the teams have to perform a task 65 million years in the making. This involves assembling a 20 foot replica of a dilophosaurus. Kisha elects to do it for them and is joined shortly by Margie and Christina. Kent happily accepts the Roadblock for his team and Vyxsin takes the time waiting to confess to Jen and Ron that they do have a 30-minute penalty, which is why they U-Turned the others.

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