"It was really hard to watch it back knowing what we were going to see at the end," Melinda tells Gold Derby (watch the video interview above). "It was really difficult — but it was enlightening!"
While traveling through Sofia, Bulgaria, teams were specifically instructed not to take taxis, but to instead travel on foot or use the metro transit system. That information slipped through the cracks for Melinda and Erika, who hailed cabs throughout the leg. In the end, no penalty was assessed because they finished in last place anyway.
After watching the race back on TV, both now realize it was all meant to be. "That whole leg of the race was a lot of running," Erika explains. "Ultimately, if we hadn't taken those taxis, I don't think we would have even seen people along the way as frequently as we did. Also, my mom would have been so exhausted. For my mom to have the energy to absolutely crush it for her last Roadblock — as much as misreading the clue was such a doofus thing to do, it did ultimately prolong us and allow us to enjoy that leg of the race."
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After finding their clue at a klek shop near Russian Monument Square, Melinda and Erika had to travel to the library at Sofia University. There, teams had to translate two book pages from Cyrillic to English using a cypher before receiving their next clue. The most difficult part of the task was discovering the translation key was on the back of the cypher itself. After all the other teams had finished, Han and Holden Nguyen let Melinda and Erika in on the secret.
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