Love in the Wild Recap: Loving Power

Horses! Everyone is now frantically cantering willy-nilly-filly through the jungle one after another. Truth is, these are some tired old tourist trail horses that are all probably arthritic and annoyed to be included in this spectacle. Michelle is on the “biggest, wildest” one that gets spooked by her flopping false eyelashes and takes off just a’hellin’ it.

“I can hear the bats chasing me!”

Meanwhile Cockney walks his horse up into last place. Kindred spirits.

Two of these things enjoy grass

We have Kenina still in first place, evidenced by them running from a group of already tied-up horses. I guess the producers are making Summer, Chase and Juggs stand back for a few minutes so the action matches the background music for this scene.

You better run, the people who rode those horses in are about to be released!

The next challenge is to find three more pieces of MAP. They are: in a cave, on a clifftop and in an underwater shoreline alcove. The teams can retrieve these pieces in any order they choose. Especially if it works well for the editors. SummerChase start with the cave, Kenina head to the cliff and when they catch up, Cockney Juggs also choose the cave. We start there and it is littered with scrolls.

Scarier than scorpions!

Summer Chase start opening scrolls and discover most are filled with “Try Again” messages. Summer seems to find one in short order however. I can’t help thinking going to the cave last might be a good idea to let everyone else sort through the duds. Ben agrees with me.

This is how I know I’m wrong

At the cliff top Kenina is observing the next feat. The map is hung halfway down the cliff face and there is a rusty iron rung ladder nailed into the rock to use for the descent.

Looks OSHA compliant to me

They are both harnessed up by, I assume, professionals because we don’t see that part. Even so, this is high and heart pounding and it’s fairly impressive that Ken is heading down with absolutely no fear. I’m sure it’s totally safe and that the water is deep enough to fall into safely, but I would pee a little. Yanina too feels a flutter for Ken’s manliness and they seem to have a healthy mix of pushing each other and yet not bossing this time around.

Climbing Yanina-style

On the other hand, Cockney and Juggs are both having a hard time keeping Cockney under control. Even Juggs’ normal level temper is wearing thin as he drags her around and curses at their relative pace to the others. She keeps imploring him to “Please, stop”. Which he takes to mean she wants to slow the pace but I’m pretty sure the whole sentence is “Please, stop being an asshole”. She admits it is their first fight. It’s a good job travel is never stressful, enjoy that trip around the world!

I’m pretty sure her bottom-most lips are his favorite things to get out