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Jonathan Baker & Victoria Fuller

By Cynthia Wang

Thursday January 20, 2005 01:00 PM EST

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What moments were wonderful that you wish were shown to counteract that?
Jonathan: Victoria and I were really nice to each other most of the race. The only time you saw that anxiety and that aggression was when we were moving toward a roadblock or a detour or moving away from one, talking about what happened or what was going to happen.
Victoria: In every country, we always said, "Helloooo, Budapest," or "Bye-bye, Nice." We always greeted and signed off from every country we visited.
Jonathan: We were very appreciative to go 70,000 miles around the planet.

Are you introspective about the experience?
Jonathan: We ran this race hard and even though we were mean to each other, individually we ran that race better than anybody could run it. I am very proud of us.

One of your goals as a couple coming in to the race was to see if you were ready to have a family. Are you?
Victoria: I've decided I am going to wait at least one more year before I step into that direction with our lives. We have more stuff going on than ever.

What projects do you have coming up?
Victoria: I am a painter, a pop artist, and I have a big show coming up in March in New York.
Jonathan: I've been trying to get CBS to get me on Survivor – that's really what I would love to do. In the meantime, I have a motion picture I'm about to start. I am a writer-director and it's called Fate. Ironically enough, it's about love. I am a romantic at heart.

So, the love continues for you two?
Victoria: Yeah.
Jonathan: We are friends at the core. If we weren't, we wouldn't be here today. We'd be broken up. I don't like watching what I've seen and I know Victoria doesn't like it. It was very hard to deal with but we sucked it up and hopefully we are better people because of it.