What makes the Amazing Race so amazing? It's just two ordinary people at a starting line with nothing but the whole world in front of them…

At each stop, you and your partner must successfully perform a task to get directions to your next stop. The first team to the final stop will win the Amazing Race.  Along the way, you'll visit places that are weird, beautiful, educational, fun, or a mixture of all four.   (Click on the images to see videos)
​The 2019 Race was so far from home that we had to get hotel rooms for the night before. The Race went through Manistee, Frankfort, Leland, and Traverse City. Teams searched for (and climbed, and painted) lighthouses, got their pilot's licenses in the hometown of America's first female pilot, climbed a sand dune, learned knot-tying, and ate an entire cherry pie.
The 2017 Michigan Amazing Race celebrated all the previous Races for the tenth installment and went through Belleville, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Milford, and West Bloomfield.  Teams wrangled chickens, found the grave of a suspected witch, photographed wild animals, sang "Singin' in the Rain" and used a robot arm.
The 2016 Michigan Amazing Race started in Lansing and visited Grand Ledge, Portland, Grand Rapids, and Holland.  Teams found historic bridges, fed giraffes, got covered in parakeets, found La Grande Vitesse, and climbed 172 steps.  
The 2014 Michigan Amazing Race left Michigan and spilled over into Ohio, visiting Monroe, Toledo, Perrysburg, Fremont, and Sandusky. Racers explored a giant cargo ship, searched through thousands of froggies, pumped a bilge, visited a huge fort, grew a beard at Rutherford B. Hayes' house, squeezed ketchup packets, and tracked down the elusive Amazing Race bird.
The 2013 Michigan Amazing Race went from Ann Arbor to Chelsea, Hell, Pinckney, and Brighton and teams had to recreate works of art, visit a boa constrictor, stuff a teddy bear, mine a gemstone, identify bird calls, and make wedding cupcakes. 
The 2011 Michigan Amazing Race started where 2010 left off - the Horticultural demonstration Gardens in East Lansing. Teams had to navigate a corn maze, learn Old English at a castle, recreate the "Dewey Defeats Truman" photo, decipher hobo signs, go back to grade school and count flags on carousel horses.
The 2010 Michigan Amazing Race took us further from home than any other Race. We went to Marshall, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and East Lansing. Teams investigated a Magic Museum, dangled from a bridge, dissected owl puke, and brought their partners to Climax...Michigan. 
The 2009 Michigan Amazing Race went to Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Dexter. Teams visited a firehouse museum, found a stop based on 100-year-old photos, dug up dinosaur bones, found faerie doors, and paddled a canoe to retrieve a clue hanging from a bridge.
The 2007 Michigan Amazing Race added more volunteers so the Detours could be in separate locations. There were two Yields and an Intersection. Teams had to get their hair painted blue, stomp watermelons, watch a video clue, get married, and solve a puzzle based on the locations they visited.
The 2006 Michigan Amazing Race added Fast-Forwards and cameramen in the cars. Teams sang the preamble to the constitution, used compasses, dug elbow-deep in mud, explored a marsh preserve, and shot slingshots.
The 2005 Michigan Amazing Race had only 5 teams and two cameras, one for me and one for my assistant. We leapfrogged each other to meet the teams at each stop and set up the Route Info, Detour and Roadblock tasks. They built mousetrap cars, ate frozen juice, and rowed out to an island among other things.