Lessons I Learned While Watching This Season's Amazing Race

#1 Don't panic when faced with a frustrating situation.  Staying cool and think your way through the challenge really helped Josh finish the task way ahead of James and Lexi.


#2 It's not over til it's over.  This cliche has been played out time and again, but it really applies to this season!  I really though the goat farmers would get the boot after their 4-hour penalty in Russia - but fate had other plans for them!

#3  Don't trust taxi drivers wherever you may be!! The hippies lost their bag - and their passports when they left their bags with their taxi driver in Moscow.  

#4 Slow and steady can win the race.  If you watched this season, especially from the seventh leg to the final episode, you'd understand why!  The goat farmers never even won one leg - but they got the biggest prize!

#5 Don't give up, not in this type of race. You never know what's happening to the other teams.

#6  Timing is everything!  The Goat Farmers just came last in one of the non-elimination rounds!  Otherwise, they always came second to the last or at least, one of the bottom rung teams - till their fantastic win!