Travel Thursday: Your Own Amazing Race

Came across an intriguing program from Competitours, a US travel company that runs "The Amazing Race" type tours in Europe. According to the company,

Competitours is a team travel competition that pits your creativity, ingenuity, and wits against 16 other teams – picture "The Amazing Race^TM" without the stress, weird food, and extreme stunts. Over a 9-day trip, you will compete across 4 European countries, from bustling big cities to off-the-radar countryside. Along the way, you'll enjoy playful rivalry with the other teams by day, and cheerful revelry by night.

If their tours are as well thought out as their website, then they're something truly amazing, because the website does an outstanding job of anticipating every question or concern you might have about the program.

While I'm planning to travel in North America this summer rather than Europe, the opportunity to do what The Chicago Tribune calls "The Amazing Race for regular people" is definitely tempting.