Fran and Barry follow, out into the water. And then, Eric and Jeremy.

Ray and Yolanda, on the other hand, are still lost. They're getting another set of directions, but Ray is still having trouble reading the signs. I have to agree that I could probably guess at a certain number of signs in Italy or Norway, but I'm not going to guess anything in Arabic except my own level of inexperience with world languages, which isn't even a guess, really, so much as a depressing realization.

BJ and Tyler, in the lead for the moment, come across another short section of road where they're going to have to drive through water. They stop and have a discussion with MoJo in which both teams try to convince each other to go first. Because there's nothing like being so wussy that you won't drive through water unless somebody shows you how. Then Fran and Barry come up behind those two and sit and wait, and then Eric and Jeremy come up. Far less concerned about this than the other teams, Eric and Jeremy just drive right into the water, happy for the shot at an advantage -- which is why they're winning, if you think about it. All the teams ultimately venture into the water and find that it is not, in fact, too deep to drive through. Though I do keep expecting water to come in through the air vents. The strangest moment, by a large margin, is when Tyler, driving through the brown water, notes, "Is this the most awesome chocolate surprise you've ever had?" That is just the weirdest combination of porn overtones and some kind of Willy Wonka mythology that I have ever heard. Fran, on the other hand, is extremely nervous, because she's afraid of water, and mud, and driving.