Flight attendants Christie & Jodi were defined by travel both good & bad in their first leg of "The Amazing Race 14" en route to a barely survivable tenth place leg finish.
Aside from making the first arriving plane, their high point on leg one was to find a woman who would help them make a train connection to arrive in Locarno, Switzerland ahead of all other teams. If not for an equalization waiting for a next day 7:15 a.m. departure from the Church of San Antonio, their result could have been a far better thing. Instead, they dropped to the mid-tier of racers waiting for a taxi at a nearby station while others used taxis parked near the church.
The pair would fall all the way to last place on another travel issue, taking a quickly departing train to Interlaken without realizing that the train would arrive much later than an alternative route. The attendants could blame Brad & Victoria all they want but its one's own responsibility to check arrival times when such info is available. That's a given for this race.
Despite travel issues though, Christie and Jodi proved themselves as fighters with Jodi fighting through her own issues on the bungee jumping Roadblock. More importantly, the pair pushed together through the cheese moving task to overcome Preston & Jennifer and avoid elimination.
If nothing else is true, the flight attendants were clearly the focal point of episode TAR 14.1. Whether they can rebound from their wildly up and down performance to a more consistent positive result is the main question as we move thru the season.
____________________________Labels: christie and jodi, tar 14.1, tar14 teams, the amazing race, the amazing race 14
