The waiting times have been around since the first amazing race. My guess is that it is the only way to keep each hour episode interesting. If they didn't do this some teams that got a head early could possibly end up winning by days if the circumstances were right. The first teams last night made it in 5 hours before the last teams. Do that a couple of times and you will start hitting planes a day before the others. I do think it was funny how Kris and Jon make too pretty big mistakes (wait till 10 for the tower, and then the wrong cemetary), and then end up getting in first. Anyways, I think that team will do very well because of the type of relationship they have. Even when they messed up, they kept an optimistic attitude. Can you imagine if that happened to Jon? We might have seen fists flying.
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