Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 55 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Lis-Bon Voyage
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.13.2013
Tram 28 returns to the bottom of the hill, where Nicky & Kim have been waiting to board. When they meet the singer at the top, they scream and laugh joyously, which makes it hard to enjoy the music, but they have their clue now and need only to find someone to ask what it means.
The two lead teams have already made it to the Coach museum, which is essentially a baroque-looking hangar where a number of coaches are parked. The one matching their painting has a clue box next to it, and it's for a Detour: "Tiles" or "Miles." I do appreciate the shorter Detour titles we've seen so far this season. Please keep it up. For "Tiles," the teams will have to put together a puzzle of a life-sized human figure from blue-and-white ceramic tiles, and then stand it up on a cardboard backing to get their next clue from the tile master. I also appreciate learning the names of vocations I never knew existed. I mean, where do you earn a tile master's degree? "For "Miles," they'll have to use giant calipers on a huge outdoor map that's inlaid into a public square to plot the total distance that Ferdinand Magellan traveled between ten destinations around the world. They only have to get within 500 nautical miles of the right answer (16,500) in order to receive their next clue. And they'll get it from someone Phil calls "the man himself," though I'm reasonably certain he's only a guy in a Magellan costume. The two lead teams decide to go attempt "Miles" together. I mean, when the race offers you a 3% margin of error, you take it.
Nicky & Kim find out almost immediately that they're supposed to go to the Coach Museum, so they cab up and head there.
In the taxi to the Miles Detour, Travis is talking about how this alliance is turning out better than he expected. When they arrive, they find the eight-foot-high calipers leaning against a support column, from which clipboards holding the list of destinations are also hanging. Since everyone gets the same list, the two teams decide to collaborate on this one. The guys carry their calipers off in search of "a big map," which is made easier to find by the presence of a dude in Renaissance garb pacing it gravely. They soon find the scale in the corner indicating that a couple of feet is 1,410 miles, and use that to calibrate their calipers. Now it's just a matter of getting started by measuring the distance from Seville to the Canary Islands, and from there on down to Cape Horn. While Nicole and Amy work together to do the math, Jason and Travis wrangle the unwieldy calipers, though Travis is also enjoying the scenery and advises the others to do the same. After they're done with arithmetic, that is.
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