“New York... I have heard of this village.” – Nigerian secret police to Ivy on border crossing between Nigeria and Cameroon
“Where are your daughters?” – Guber to a group of men standing on the roadside as we drove past in a minivan (on a high after climbing Mount Cameroon and downing celebratory beers)
“If you get cream on your nose, I’ll lick your face clean and I won’t even care.” – Jo to Guber, protecting her cream pastry from the patisserie in Yaoundé
“I could do with some of that.” – Sonny referring to bromide which is in soldiers’ food to kill their sex drive
“You just don’t understanding English when it’s sproken properly.” – Josh (English) to Ivy (American) and Dom (Aussie)
“When at a border stop, do you think it’s better to shit behind the truck or in the bin?” – Andrea
“You must’ve been ethnically sheltered.” – Karen to Harry on being an Aussie and not known what damper is (Lisa though she said ‘epically sheltered’ which was much funnier)
“How many livers do we have? Coz one of mine is having an AFD.” – Josh on giving ‘one of his livers’ an alcohol free day
“He learnt it in Sea World.” – Andrea’s response to someone asking where Garrett learnt to do a dolphin style jump to fetch a Frisbee in the pool
“What’s that ski city in France that sounds like Chernobyl?” – Harry on trying to recall Grenoble
“Ou est la rue de Baklava?” – Harry after I tried to teach him the French word for slaves (esclaves, baklava…same thing… apparently!) – needless to say he got lost
“I’ve got sticky stuff all over me.” – Katie on Fan Milk Citrus icecream incident
“I think Nigeria’s anticipating your arrival. They’ve closed the border!” – Ivy on Shaun’s post Australia Day celebrations fart 3 hours from the Nigerian border
“No insect is coming near me, my boobs or my £$*&!...You should be worried as that’s where they’ll end up!” – Jo on insect-ridden road to Afi Drill Ranch
“Communism. Socialism. Same thing. They all come from the same bathroom.” – Harry on politics
“Some people look really peaceful when they sleep. Sonny looks like he’s being XXXXly probed.” – Josh on Sonny sleeping
“These quotes make me sound like a really bitchy queen.” – Josh after reading quote book
“I no longer care what the outside world thinks. There is no society but truck society. And it’s feral.” – Josh reflecting on life in general after drinking the last drop of ‘Chaud Soleil’ (wine in a plastic bottle)
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