Quickie Blog: The Amazing Race

The new season of The Amazing Race debuted tonight. I am ravenous fan of this show for so many reasons, not the least of which is my obsessiveness with travel. (As in, if I hit the big time, I'd totally love to travel, like, nine months of the year.) This is going to be a great season, and here are a few of my reasons why:

1. Mike White (aka the screenwriter and co-star of the most excellent film, School of Rock, and writer/producer of the short-lived "Freaks and Geeks") and his dad are one of the teams. You know I want them to win.
   
2. The first Road Block with a bungee jump off a freakin' dam in Switzerland! At 220-meters, it's the second-highest commercial bungee jump in the world (after the 233-meter jump from Macau Tower in Macau, China).
3. Then they had to carry 200 lbs of cheese (yes, cheese) down a hill while a bunch of Swiss cheese farmers (farmers?) watched and laughed uproariously. I laughed, too, when the 50-lb wheels of cheese took off down the steep hill.
   
4. One of the teams is a pair of brothers who work as stunt doubles for child actors. They are fearless.
   
5. The couple that loves to fight and bicker and yell at each other got eliminated on the first night. (I always hate watching teams who turn on each other under pressure.)
6. The mother and deaf son team (who considered themselves the underdogs, but I don't understand why--he's deaf, not dead) won the first leg! Yay them!
   

I can't wait to follow the rest of the round-the-world adventure. And dream of following in their footsteps. (At least as long as I don't have to bungee jump off that dam.)

Hugs,
TLC