Was there a finale party Jessica?

Part of the challenge is having limited funds.

Do you know if they're not allowed ask locals for money? I understand that they probably went to the airport to beg because there would be many more people around at that time of night. But I was wondering why they didn't seem to ask the hotel staff for any money at all.

Was there a finale party Jessica?

There was, but it's turned into much more of a Finale Press Event than a party. (TARcon is still considered the "real" party for most of the cast & crew.)

Do you know if they're not allowed ask locals for money?

Oh yeah, they can beg from anyone. (That's the only way the last team on a nonelimination leg ever gets anywhere.)

I do recall an instance of a team failing to pay a taxi driver properly -- it was Chip and Kim, in Abu Dhabi (or, Oman? Anyway, opulent hotel + desert), and the taxi driver took them all the way out to the next clue in the middle of nowhere, and clearly had no idea that all the team had was $20. Chip resolved this with bounding enthusiasm and hugs, but the taxi driver was pretty clearly nonplussed when the team headed off. And didn't speak good enough English to make his objection properly understood.

I hate the begging. It smacks of intentional humiliation, and it never seems possible for the team in question to just do without -- taxis are always needed immediately.

Now, trying to travel the world with no baggage, that's funny, and an interesting predicament; but you can make do without baggage for a day or two.

TAR:

AMAZING!

I think that Uchenna broke Phil with that hug.

I was going to say that I'd hope that U&J would have taken off running for the finish if they'd seen R&A coming around the corner, but I didn't know about that "You MUST pay your cabbie" rule.

I'd like to think there's both a cabbie and an airline pilot who get a big tip now.

I have an etiquette question, especially for the (recent) moms around. Last night, a classmate told me she was three months pregnant, and I immediately looked at her mid-section. Was that unbearably rude? I couldn't help myself! But I could try to do better next time.

It really would have been much more fair to have given them the option to hitchhike. But oh well.

I have an etiquette question, especially for the (recent) moms around. Last night, a classmate told me she was three months pregnant, and I immediately looked at her mid-section. Was that unbearably rude? I couldn't help myself! But I could try to do better next time.

I think that's just instinct. Tummy oogling never bothered me and I don't think it's considered rude.

Thanks, Cashmere. I immediately played it off, making a joke on myself out of it, but wondered later.

Last night, a classmate told me she was three months pregnant, and I immediately looked at her mid-section.

That's not the first place most guys would look.