The other truth that we often discuss is that we're really participants on the reality show, The Amazing Race. Every day that we're exploring the city, navigating subways, city buses, squares and streets with long challenging names such as Avenida Antonio Augusto Aguiar, Rua dos Remedios, or Largo do Outeirinho da Amendoeira. Many times, we've done the classic slack-jawed tourist pose where one of us turns the map in circles while the other one squints at the nearest street sign with a look on both of our faces reminiscent of Bugs Bunny's "I knew I should have taken a left at Praça Afonso de Albuquerque!" If you've never watched The Amazing Race, the contestant pairs hurry through the various countries, following clues to reach specific landmarks, complete a challenge that is only vaguely representative of the culture, and then head on. The team that reaches each stage in last place is eliminated from the race, whittling the competition down until the winning team completes a race around the world and receives a prize for $1,000,000.
We haven't seen the eyebrow-raising Australian host, Phil, on any stage of our journey but we wouldn't be suprised if we arrived at our destination hotel at the end of a long traveling day to have him tell us, "Robert and Susan... you're team number... ONE!"
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