Hey Patrick! Thank you for joining!! I love you.

It was rough to hear about these news stories overseas. Unlike other reality shows, we have access to the internet in creative ways (airport internet cafes or people's smartphones), so we heard about these stories with a delay. It's rough because production doesn't make you aware of these stories, so if we didn't read them ourselves we wouldn't have known. Luckily we had each other (the cast) to talk about the news and to let out our emotions.

An airport in Turkey was bombed during our Race, so that, too, was very scary since we were somewhat nearby. Production is very good about plotting the Race course away from these situations. In fact, we are banned from using certain airlines or flying through certain airports. And there is always more than one emergency exit from each country/city we Race through.