In the meanwhile, Rhinox, pickemgenius, Haylen and PHANTOM had arrived at the Borgata and were starting to look around the tables as wel. ShadowLurker finally found a card in the Baccarat tables and headed back to JFK airport. Soon after, Haylen and pickemgenius found their lucky cards followed later by PHANTOM and Rhinox. farside22 arrived a little behind the others but put in a lot of effort and quickly made her way back to NYC to try to get there before the sun rose.
Over at the airport, a few of the players were working the airport counters real hard to get the first flight out of the city in the morning. pickemgenius, ShadowLurker and chavo managed to board the same flight to London Heathrow after a very exhausting morning going from counter to counter. Rhinox managed to secure an early flight as well. farside22 made it to the airport just as some flights were heading out and quickly boarded the first flight she could take out of NYC with lots of connections and layovers to London Gatwick.
animorpherv1 finally started up his section of the race and made his way to Atlantic City and back in due time and caught up with the other players still at the airport. Everyone else decided to take one of the evening overnight flights that would arrive in the morning. animorpherv1 had a quick sigh of relief that he caught up with the other players and was no longer 12 hrs behind.
Back at London, the players were heading onward to Wembley Stadium to play a little football game against a local goalkeeper. Everyone was a bit disappointed to see that the stadium was not open when they arrived and they had to wait until midnight until they could start up again. They all left the Stadium at the same time and headed back to London Heathrow to find their way to Madrid-Barajas. All four boarded the same flight to Madrid and left London before any of the other players even arrived in London.
The other four players made it within due time to Wembley Stadium, all except farside22 who had a much harder time coming from London Gatwick airport. However, farside22 quickly got her goals in a row from all the college soccer she played. Luckily she managed to get to the airport just a minute after Haylen so she wouldn't be so alone in last place. However, these players did not have as much luck with their flights and each took a different flight to Madrid.
Back at Madrid, the front-runners quickly got to Toledo and all got on buses within half hour of each other. But it wasn't until they got to the Faro de Moncloa when exhaustion really separated them from each other. Rhinox was well-rested and got to the top first in record time. A few hrs later ShadowLurker, pickemgenius and chavo finally arrived.
The final four players landed and PHANTOM landed first and quickly got to the pitstop. farside22 and Haylen were fighting for next position because their planes landed within an hour of each other. And both were a bit tired from all the maneuvering from earlier. It was foolish of them to count out animorpherv1 though who made up a huge time deficit from earlier. But in the end it was...
Pit Stop Times
14:58 ShadowLurker
15:12 pickemgenius
15:55 chavo
17:40 PHANTOM
19:04 farside22
20:17 Haylen
11:17 (+1) animorpherv1