I’m hanging out with team FRESH this month….we’ve got a lot of team blogs coming with some fun facts about these beautiful ladies.
Name: Maci
Hometown: Somerset, KY
Hobbies / interest: Netflix, Reading, Memes, Movies, Sports.
Favorite pick up line: “I see you’re drinking 1%. Is that ‘cause you think you’re fat? ‘Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.”
Dogs or cats?: anything but birds
Beach or mountains: MOUNTAINS
Pet peeves: when my socks get wet wearing socks and chocs.
Describe your perfect date : April 25- it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
Dream vacation: anywhere on the Mediterranean Sea.
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: questionable meat in Africa.
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Romania.
Best memory on the race : I have too many to pick just one.
Most embarrassing moment on the race : trying to obtain a stool sample in Ethiopia.. it’s a long story.
One thing I’ve learned this year: what my relationship with the Lord looks like.
Wildest thing you did this year: risked my life going to the dumpster outside of our compound in Peru to get a shoebox for a teammate to mail things home in. I had to walk through a large pack of incest street dogs. Scawy .
Name: Aleesa Byrne
Hometown: Hobart, Oklahoma
Hobbies / interest : Music, gondolas, & coffee
Favorite pick up line : If you were a fruit, you would be a fine-apple.
Dogs or cats? : YES
Beach or mountains : Mountains, por favor
Pet peeves :crunchin’ munchin’ & smackin’
Ideal first date : Getting lost on an adventure
Dream vacation : European Cruise
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: Chicken foot
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, India, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Romania, Portugal (I’m not bias)
Best memory on the race : Riding on the Piccadilly Subway Line in London
Most embarrassing moment on the race : Petting a random dudes hair after he petted mine
What’s the craziest thing you’ve done on the race: Got undresses so the ladies in India could dress me in my sari
One thing I’ve learned this year : People don’t always knock
Name : Shondra
Hometown : apparently I’m from the most average state in the country so people stop listening by the time I get to my hometown.
Hobbies / interest : reading pinterest like it’s the newspaper, finding random benches and imagine feeding the birds, food combinations, collecting trash, you know the usual.
Favorite pick up line : literally cringing as my team currently looks these up
Dogs or cats? : oh dogs for sure, I’m too jumpy for cats.
Beach or mountains : scoff. mountains.
Pet peeves : puns.
Ideal first date : some sort of cooking or painting class, sitting in an airport and people watching, or a warm breakfast on a cold winter day. why aren’t breakfast dates more of a thing?
Dream vacation : honestly, I’ll just take my bedroom at this point
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: I walked into a random African church service, saw a peanut on the chair, ate it and then realized it was actually an uncooked bean.
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Nepal or Romania..or India. lots of love.
Best memory on the race : I can’t pick any specific one, just all the times I’ve deep uncontrollably deep belly kind of laughed with these people who ten short months ago, I never knew existed.
Most embarrassing moment on the race : going to a coffee shop in Colombia and for two weeks I was saying “no milk, I am the milk” when ordering coffee. I noticed the guys laughing at me, I just thought they were flirting??????
One thing I’ve learned this year : I really like napkins, I’m a massive hoarder, acting out what I’m trying to say isn’t my strong suit, and there’s a lot of world out there and not enough lifetime.
What’s the wildest thing you’ve done on the race? messed around and got malaria…and typhoid. and roto virus. oh and ecoli. and then typhus.
Name : Mckenzie
Hometown : Idaho Falls, ID
Hobbies / interest : listening to music, Pinterest, watching movies, cooking
Favorite pick up line : I’d never play hide and seek with you because someone like you is impossible to find
Dogs or cats? : Dogs
Beach or mountains : Mountains
Pet peeves : people that chew loudly or when phone call service is poor so the audio lags
Ideal first date : Something adventurous that includes good food
Dream vacation : Italy and Greece
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: There was some meat in Africa…
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Ethiopia
Best memory on the race : The adventures of getting lost in London trying to get back to our hotel
Most embarrassing moment on the race : We went surfing in Peru and I was stung by a massive jellyfish. I was starting to lose feeling so my teammates had to huddle around me and pee on my leg and arms
One thing I’ve learned this year : Life is meant to be lived simply
Name :Laurie (pronounced Laur-reee)
Hometown : Casar , NC
Hobbies / interest :dogs , hiking, breweries, food, travel, window shopping, coffee shops, people watching , day dreaming.
Favorite pick up line :“hey boy , yo mama let you date?”
Dogs or cats? : easy, dogs.
Beach or mountains :give me that fresh mountain air.
Pet peeves :when people pronounce my name wrong.
Ideal first date :taking a drive to your favorite place and trying things from all the best brews and food joints.
Dream vacation: sailing around Italy with no agenda or plans.
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: guinea pig in Ecuador and some unidentified meat in Rwanda.
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Nepal.
Best memory on the race: getting lost in Rwanda , jumping the fence that said “no trespassing” in the cajas park in Ecuador, waking up at 4am to hike rainbow mountain, all the moments my friends and I have laughed uncontrollably forever for no reason at all.
Most embarrassing moment on the race : when I ripped my pants in Nepal (right in the crotch area and walked around Kathmandu the entire afternoon not realizing it).
One thing I’ve learned this year :so several things, separate checks aren’t a thing abroad toilet paper doesn’t exist in any bathrooms in Africa, you actually don’t have to bathe with soap to be clean, you can have a good relationship with someone who doesn’t speak the same language as you, less is more and God is wild and has a humor.
What’s wildest thing you’ve done on the race ? : ask me when I’m done with the race.
Me…their SQL for the month!
Name: Kell Bell
Hometown: Carlisle, PA
Hobbies/interest: Volleyball, Hunting, Photography, board games, game nights, cooking, camping.
Favorite pick up line: Are you a camera? Because every time I look at you I smile.
Dogs or cats?: Dawgsss!
Beach or mountains: Mountains
Pet peeves: Not cleaning up after yourself (especially in the kitchen).
Describe your perfect date: Hiking through the mountains, making dinner over a campfire, and watching the embers burn.
Dream vacation: Great Barrier Reef-Scuba Diving.
Weirdest thing you ate on the race: Well I almost ordered raw meat in Ethiopia by accident, but eating cooked guinea pig in Baños would probably top the list.
Favorite country you’ve visited this year: Rwanda.
Best memory on the race–
Adventure: Hiking Pichincha-not knowing what we were getting into… “It’ll only take 3.5 hours” 6 hours later- hiking through all terrains: sand, rocks and getting to the top when a storm was rolling in.
Ministry: Kid’s camp in Kenya! Hours upon hours of singing, making our theme verse into a song, games galore, tons of hugs, and children on my lap during every opportunity
Most embarrassing moment on the race: Running with some friends, tripping over the ground, and having an awesome sprawl on the sidewalk. Picked myself back up, had a few laughs and kept running.
One thing I’ve learned this year: Sooo much! But, God can be found everywhere and anywhere and is always there when you need him the most.
What’s the craziest thing I’ve done on the race: Not paragliding, but the ride home! https://kellyfahnestock.theworldrace.org/post/the-adrenaline-junkie or that time I scaled the building after salsa dancing to get us in the house because we couldn’t get the door unlocked (Team Valor)
