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Tom Chatt says: Team "Better Than Bacon" running around the port of San Pedro, where the race began.

Tom Chatt says: A team discovers a clue on board the S.S. Lane Victory, a World War II merchant marine vessel.

Tom Chatt says: We had to find the Radio Room by listening for the beeps, and then we had to decipher a clue in Morse code.

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Tom Chatt says: The "Sisters Martensen(?)" team running for the forecastle deck to get the next clue.

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Tom Chatt says: Team "Super Awkward" in matching Superman shirts untying a nautical knot to get the next clue.

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Tom Chatt says: Downtown under the skyscrapers, one of us had to build a tower of blocks. Which team member has a steady hand? That would be Henry...

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Tom Chatt says: Another team searches Santee Alley in the downtown Fashion district to find a person wearing a particular T-shirt.

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Tom Chatt says: Team "Show Me The Munny" reads their next clue in Koreatown.

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Tom Chatt says: The "Mountain View Mamas" came down from the SF Bay area for this race. Here they're doing an eating challenge.

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Tom Chatt says: Henry and I ponder an "intersection": eat a half-dozen Korean mung bean cakes, or run around Koreatown looking for signs written in Korean.

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Tom Chatt says: Henry and I trying to stuff down the half-dozen mung bean cakes. Definitely the better choice, though I wish we hadn't just shoved down a Subway sandwich on a 15-min lunch break.

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Tom Chatt says: Which one of our team was ready to be "teed off"? That was me. I had hit a golf ball a few times over 20 years ago, which was apparently more golf experience than Henry had. I had to hit one 100-yard drive and two 50-yard drives. Amazingly, I did it in about a dozen swings.

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Tom Chatt says: Teams ponder the balloon poodle that we were required to make, after finding a certain clown on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade.

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Tom Chatt says: Teams trying to figure out how to make a balloon animal. Thank goodness for Henry. He was our hero on this one!

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Tom Chatt says: We had to fetch pails of water from some distance away, then use a water rifle to fill an orange bucket out in the sand.

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Tom Chatt says: "The Token Gay Team" (yes, that was our official name) runs for the finish line.

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Tom Chatt says: "The Token Gay Team" runs for the finish line.

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Tom Chatt says: Us with several other teams who finished after us. We came in 11th out of 24 teams. We started at 9:30am, finished at 4:33pm, exactly 30 minutes after the first team.

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