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As the last two teams, Team Un-Fed selects Marksmanship, just as expected from a pair of fake Kindergarten teachers, and so do the divorcees. But Nary & Jamie have mastered bikes and Vanessa clearly has not, so the ladies get to the Detour first.

The pressure of last place is getting to Vanessa and she starts in with the yelling in the direction of Ralph because her bike is too tall for her to ride.

With Border Patrol, Big Brother and Team Justified all twisted around looking for the Simba campsite; Blonde Rachel & Captain Dave have leaped into first place. At the campsite, they have to set up an elaborate camp, with a working bush shower, before proceeding to a nearby Pitstop. Given that they have to build their own camp and that it would be cruel to have a team do that and them be eliminated, I am thinking I'm right that this leg is a non-elimination. Meanwhile, Dave is hopeful that his Army background and OCD will head them get through it quickly.

For the first time on the race, Art & JJ have messed up and messed up fabulously. They have gone in the entirely wrong direction, which puts them way behind the other three teams and possibly all the teams as Team Un-Fed and Vanessa & Ralph have completed the Detour as well.

As Ralph settles into the truck with a defeated outlook that they are gone, Border Patrol and Team Un-Fed are at the campsite. Dave’s Army/OCD superpowers are apparently negated by the Kilimanjaro setting because they go from leading to struggling as all but one team is on site. You know how I said Blonde Rachel & Dave seemed to have moved past their squabbling? Well, I was wrong as the passive-aggressiveness is back while they try to unsuccessfully build camp. Time for more unpleasantness to be recapped: Dave tells her to shut her mouth and that they are once again going to be the first ones there but the last ones to leave, Blonde Rachel calls him the most negative person in the universe and mockingly says, “Yes, sir” to him several times, and JJ adds, “That’s why we are not here with our wives.”

The good thing for Blonde Rachel & Dave is that no one has found the magic solution to the task. After stepping back and looking at the tent frame and Dave identifying the problem, they are able to disassemble it and then quickly put it together correctly. They both acknowledge (again) that when they are communicating properly they are a stronger team.

Now all the teams, except for Team Un-Fed, have completed the frame and tarp portion. Nary & Jamie, must return their NOW membership, as they blame the lack of a man on their team as the reason they are falling behind. Even if that is a factor, they shouldn’t admit that, especially given that they work in a male-dominated profession, you know as “kindergarten teachers” *winkwinknudgenudge*.

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