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September 29th 2008

Published: October 23rd 2008

Domestic bus travel in Ecuador had novelty value from the very beginning, with the toilets in Loja's bus terminal being free of charge. Any Peruvian visitors would have broken out in a cold sweat at the lack of security checks as we boarded the bus. The initial stretch of road was so poor that I could have hopped faster, and the nearly 6 hours to cover just over 200km warranted a Laos comparison... Read Full Entry

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John McCabe

Jabe

I quit the rat race in 2005, after working as an IT project manager for over a decade. I then travelled around the world for 4 years, a period of my life which is covered by this blog. After finishing my trip, I wrote a book about my dissatisfaction with my career, my reasons for quitting my job, life as a first-time thirtysomething backpacker, and finally the lessons learned from being exposed to experiences and people that I would never have encountered if I'd stayed in my office. The book is called "Out Of Office Male" and is available at all the usual eBook outlets. I took a ... full info

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23rd October 2008

graciela
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Love your pics
I always read your blogs. I love your sense of humour, or at least it´s sense of humour to me. I´ve been to Cuenca last year. Lovely place, lovely pictures, lovely details you focused with your camera. Great. Love from Argentina.

24th October 2008

Laryssa
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Great photos!
We wanted to go to Cuenca on our trip to Ecuador-unfortunately our plans had to change (not for a bad reason thankfully, just one of those travel things) and we couldn't make it. Your photos are gorgeous! Thanks for giving me the view of the city we couldn't make it to.

24th October 2008

Adrian Y
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spiritual experience
sorry for waxing purple all at once (hmm chameleon?)...uplifting and wry observations visual & verbal. Admire your exquisite "eye" - do you adjust photos, or does your camera give these supreme results? What do you use? O Master John Prester thank thank thank you.

24th October 2008

Jabe
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Re spiritual experience
I know I can always rely on you for a positive comment, Adrian - thanks :-) I'm currently using a Canon S3iS, which has the major benefit of a x12 optical zoom but without having to carry around any separate lenses. It's certainly not perfect, but as a travel camera it's pretty close. I rarely do any post-processing, maybe a crop once in a blue moon, but having just discovered the functionality available in the photo editing software on Flickr, I may be doing more in the future. However post-processing takes Internet time, and that's often in short supply when I'm travelling.

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