Here is a random sampling of the actual things thought and said:
- Flex your gluts! Flex your gluts!
- How many miles is 26 kilometers, and if I’ve walked 8 kilometers by 10:30, about when will we finish for today?
- I have to pee!
- Can I have a drink of water?
- All the kids in the marketplace say Ay-oh, Ay-oh, Ay-oh, Ay-oh!
- Play me a song you’re the piano man, play me a song tonight. We’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right.
- Tell me why, ain’t nothing but a heartache, tell me why ain’t nothing but a mistake, tell me why I never wanna hear you say, I want it that way.
- How much longer before we finish for today?
- I’m glad we’re not booking all these hotels ourselves!
- How are we going to pack all this stuff when we pick up our other bag at the post office?
- I wonder if we’ll ever see those British guys again?
- What is the ideal camera kit for this style of travel?
- Am I getting a blister?
- Is it time for chocolate yet?
- Going uphill is the worst!
- Going downhill is the worst!
- How is that girl running down this trail? I would land on my face!
- Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches!
- The first Noel, the angels did say, was for certain poor shepherds…. something, something, something lay…
- Jingle jingle jingle can you hear the sleigh bells ring?
- Mooo! (to the cows)
- Poo! (while pointing out a cow pie)
- What’s going to happen to our bodies after we finish this and aren’t walking all day every day?
- Why on earth did they book us to stay at x instead of y?
- Oh, my knees!
- Flex your gluts!
- No one can stop me, I’m all the way up!
- Will we be off of this highway soon?
- Are we there yet?
