Surprisingly I found that alot of people knew the show and even would approach us to ask if that was in fact what we were doing. But unfortunately, not everyone wanted to help. Sometimes when we desperately needed it, we would waste so much time w/ someone that just wanted to be on tv and would incessantly ask us questions to prolong the experience for them and woudln't help us at all. We would get so frustrated. But that was the worse end of the spectrum...as you can see, both teams struck gold here and there with some really great and giving people. Sandy was the sweetest in the world, as you can see from last nights show. The perfect mother!

As far as the competition b/t the teams, we honestly didn't know about it until we were on our way to Duke. It seems like it was common knowledge to everyone else, except the members of our team. I believe Exodus knew though. Had we known that, our direction would have gone differently I think. We weren't planning on hitting Chicago. They just told us that we had to be there on a certain day by a certain time or we would get penalized with time.

As always, thanks for the questions...

Annmarie