Reading reviews of the exceptional HBO show Enlightened I learned that the show's creator, Mike White, had participated in the Amazing Race with his father Mel White. I was interested in Mike White so I watched season 14 of the Amazing Race and got hooked.

Now I started to watch from the very first season. Currently I'm watching episode 3 of the first season "Home for Some". I was disappointed to see the nice girls eliminated in the last show. I have developed deep antipathy towards the orange pants guido and his horrible red haired wife(?) and also of the screaming black man who is horrible to his ex-wife. The gay couple start to annoy me as well because they do too well and are somewhat arrogant and snobbish. I like their matching outfits though. The mother and daughter team is very sympathetic an my favorite, but I fear they will be eliminated shortly. I also feel for the quiet black guy who got so nervous and cried when struggling with the Eiffel tower task and his wife just kept berating him.

Unfortunately I haven't learned the names yet.

I wonder if the dislike of the gay guys is part that they are so apparently smarter and more sophisticated than me. Easier to like the everyday people. The later seasons like 14 didn't have any too intellectual or smart types at least what comes to geography.

Oh no! How did the backpacking girls (had to look that word up, tried bagbacking, backbagging ) got so far behind though they started first. Oh yeah they looked for the wrong pendulum. Direction and tasks are worse than in the 14th season. They are still learning. I'm sorry that winning individual leg of the race doesn't give any small gifts. I think they would be nice.

Rob and Brennan are cool. They are the lawyers best friends. I like teams that are nice to each other. For some reason married couples usually do poorly with this and are horrible to each other.

Margarita and Frank are the couple with the screaming horrible black guy. They are separated parents apparently. Margarita seems nice. Frank is horrible to her.

I was sorry to see the backpacking women to be eliminated this round. Wasn't very exciting episode.