As usual, the episode began with Phil introducing the first place team; in this case, Debbie and Bianca. The latter quickly became this season's "Rebecker" as Phil transformed her name into "Beeyankeh." The lifelong friends/possible lesbians ripped open the first clue which had them packing for "The White City." No, this didn't mean grabbing a flight to The Ozarks. Instead, the duo headed off to Arequipa, a city known for its use of white volcanic rock... and, well, for its love of Clay Aiken, but that's purely coincidental.

Debbie and Bianca babbled a bit about how they really wanted to be the show's first all female team and after a few more pipe dreams, we returned to the next team, Susan and Patrick. This crafty mother and son duo warned other teams not to underestimate them, which was all great and everything, but I couldn't help getting distracted with the notion that Susan might just be the older, suburban version of Webby from Ducktales. Ironically, Susan's last name is Vanderquack too.

A few teams later, brothers Brian and Greg jogged away from the Pitstop wearing nearly matching vintage jackets. Well, they were either vintage or the two raided some Peruvian Urban Outfitters earlier that day. Yeah, that's probably what happened. I was happy to see that both brothers tied their mandanas to their backpacks. Wouldn't want to pack those. What if there were some unforeseen mandana emergency? You know, like an open casting call for a Target commercial?

Bursting out of the gate last were POW Ron and his beauty queen girlfriend Kelly. She stumbled along as she tried to keep up with her athletic boyfriend but inevitably trailed behind. That's okay though. Ron understood. "I'm a very gritty, down and dirty type person. That's what you get being in the military," he explained, adding "Man, the military kind of reminds me of this time when I was in the military. We were singing this song called 'Military.' I don't remember the lyrics, but I think it was something like 'Military military military.' Yeah, that's it."

Anyway, the teams all wound up at a local bus station, and while they waited for the first bus to depart, Rob quietly discovered that a later bus would actually arrive at The White City earlier. Rob immediately let Uchenna, Joyce, Ray, and Deana in on the secret and then paid off the tipster to ensure that he wouldn't spill the beans to the other teams. Luckily, the local kept to his word, but unfortunately, the guy's improvisational skills were, well, worse than Ashlee Simpson's. When someone asked him if there was a better bus, the guy said that he was not supposed to say. He then did a little jig, blamed his band, and confessed to having acid reflux disease. Turns out the man was Ashlee Simpson after all. WEIRD.