Within minutes, the teams were off in cars heading to Los Angeles' airport so they could fly to their first destination: Salvador, Brazil.

Half of the teams were able to get themselves booked on an earlier flight to Brazil. Toni and Dallas, Andrew and Dan, Anita and Arthur, Marisa and Brooke, and Anthony and Stephanie were not as lucky and had to get on a flight scheduled to reach Brazil three hours later. But the first plane wound up being delayed, which allowed teams on the second plane to catch up slightly. 

In Brazil, Terence and Sarah got off to a very good start when they completed the first mission first. The groups had to transport large carts of candy from one part of the city to another. Upon completion of that task, the groups were directed to their first rest stop. The order in which the teams arrived at the stop dictated the order in which they could begin the race the next day.

The first detour required teams to either climb a gigantic set of stairs on their hands and knees or climb down a 200-foot-long cargo net. After they completed the detour, teams had to make their way to the "pit stop," or the end of this leg of the race.

Nick and Starr were the first team to finish the first leg of the race. Their prize was a five-day trip to Belize. They were very excited. Ken and Tina were second. Andrew and Dan were the only team that chose the stairs, which was disastrous (they didn't know how many stairs there were). Somehow, they were able to complete the difficult challenge and finish the leg in seventh place.

Anita and Arthur, the beekeepers, were last to the leg's finish line and were the first racers to  be eliminated.