Around the World

Name: Around the World
Genre: Reality, Travel
Released: May 26, 2003
Cast: Abram Boise, Cara Zavaleta, Marybeth Decker, Donnell Langham, Tina Barta

Road Rules: Season 12: Episode 2

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MTV | MTV - Music Television | Air Date: May 26, 2003

Starring: Abram Boise, Cara Zavaleta, Marybeth Decker, Donnell Langham, Tina Barta, Christena Pyle, Chris Graebe, Jeremy Blossom, David Giuntoli

Summary: It's time to welcome our latest band of road trippers as they embark on the ride of their lives. Abram, a blonde, muscular guy with a boyish face, hasn't known one black person his entire life. He first meets up with Cara, a cute, halter-topped Midwesterner who doesn't really know what she wants to do with her life. Cara reveals that she'sIt's time to welcome our latest band of road trippers as they embark on the ride of their lives. Abram, a blonde, muscular guy with a boyish face, hasn't known one black person his entire life. He first meets up with Cara, a cute, halter-topped Midwesterner who doesn't really know what she wants to do with her life. Cara reveals that she's scared to be challenged in ways that she's not ready for and expects that this trip will be filled with exactly that kind of thing. "Cara is kind of a girly girl," says Abram. He is quite the astute observer.
Further down the beach is Dave who is very anxious and wants to be seen as a carefree guy who carries a guitar. Are guitars like the new "soul patch?" Is it a way for guys to show that there is more to them than the business degree and khaki shorts? Christena is whom Dave meets first and she rocks her own accessory, a cowboy hat. Having grown up in an all-white neighborhood, Christena explains that she's just looking for acceptance and generally befriends those who can deal with her for who she is. And who is she exactly? An aspiring pilot taking classes in preparation to fly the friendly skies. As Christena and Dave get to know more about each other, Cara and Abram row towards them in a man-powered boat, large enough for four. The four quickly exchange pleasantries and then make their way toward their final destination where they meet Marybeth (who has posed for Playboy but isn't an airhead) and Donell, who delights in being the fat kid and shocks people with what he can do. Dave loves that Donell is on the trip because "how many fit, young people can you really stomach?" Indeed, Dave. Indeed.

The Road Rulers don't have much time to get to know each other as they see their RV in the distance. The RV is cute but it's really small. Cara is concerned about the size of their transportation and how she's going to deal with so many people in such small quarters. Donell tells everyone that he's taking the bottom bunk because he "doesn't want all this man falling on anyone." They don't have much time to think about the confined space, though, because they are given a clue and are told to go to their first mission.
The gang makes it to an open field and is going to be welcomed to the Fiji Islands with a challenge called "Around the World." The Road Rulers must climb rope ladders in pairs up a hot air balloon floating high above the ground to retrieve a flag and then make it back down. It's a frightening prospect but everyone is gung ho about it, particularly Donell. Abram and Christena go first and Abram shows that he's a superstar by helping the nervous Christena make it up the ladder. The two are successful on their first attempt and their teammates on the ground take notice of what a good leader Abram is. Cara and Donell go next but with the wind picking up, the course is more treacherous. Donell stalks his ladder like it is his prey. Once up in the air, however, he is unable to balance his weight on the rope steps and falls after climbing just one rung on the ladder. Cara and Donell have shockingly failed on their first try.

Dave and Mary Beth go next but because of the wind the mission is called off before they can really go for it. The mayors decide to give the teams the prizes, anyway, because of the teamwork they displayed. The road rulers give up their cash, credit cards and the like and are given maps, a GPS system, and the money they will need for the first part of their trip. They are told that after each successful mission they will be given a piece of a tattoo. In order to receive their handsome reward they must complete the tattoo by the end of the trip. To insure that this happens, after they fail two missions, they must vote off a member of the team who will be replaced with a new cast member. Each failed mission after that will require the voting off of someone from the team. The road rulers respond by saying that they will just have to win all the missions. Donell and Cara's faces, however, suggest that they know that will not be easy considering that they really didn't complete the first one.

Meanwhile it seems that Abram, the great competitor, is also Abram, the great philanderer. Cara is thrown off by his seeming inability to deal with women unless they are potential hookups. Abram has several beliefs about women: first, that the only thing better than bleep is new bleep; and two, that sometimes you need to just let them rant and to listen, or pretend to listen, until they get it out of their system. As the ladies discuss the things that Abram needs to learn, he takes off his shorts and goes skinny-dipping at the Fiji Oceanside. While out in the water, Donell throws his shorts on the RV encouraging the rest of the team to continue with the prank. The team locks him out of RV unwilling to give him a towel leaving him standing on the beach naked. Marybeth remarks, "Well, he does have a nice ass." And we have ourselves a nice start to Road Rules: South Pacific!

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Genre(s): Reality, Travel

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