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Bus Travel, Hitchhiking, and Rideshare
Rideshare from French River to Vancouver — here driving along Lake Superior near Wawa.
The Road… It’s almost impossible to get anywhere without it. Everyone uses it. Arguably, it’s nothing special. Yet it has a certain allure travellers find irresistible. Kerouac wrote about it. Lightfoot sang about it. Because it’s how you roll on it that makes it so memorable.
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Well, the bus ride from Lima to Cusco was much better than the one from Piura to Lima. The scenery was all desert. Along the coast, more desert, with frothing waves breaking upon the beach and huge rock formations dotting the shoreline. Eventually, we rejoined the mountains, but that was after sunset. Sunset! Surreal. Hazy mountains in the […]
I take it back — I hate the bus! At least, I know when I hate the bus: at night. Especially when there’s no toilet on the bus and it doesn’t stop for 12 hours! The smoker in me screams “Inhumane!” at such an outrage, as well. So obviously, the bus ride from Piura to Lima went badly. […]
Yesterday saw me crossing the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border. I travelled alone from Loja to Piura, Brandon having gone to Vilcabamba in Ecuador. A Brilliant Bus Ride in Ecuador The scenery from the bus was just amazing! There were some pretty cool trees which a local man told me are called ceiba. The ceiba trees I saw grow in all […]
I was pretty happy to leave Cuenca and head for Loja. Even though I’ve only been gone from Mera for a week, I’m already sick of cities and just wanna go back to the countryside. Seeking some good hiking near Loja, I visited Parque Nacional Podocarpus, only about an hour and a half away by bus. Funny thing, […]
Brandon and I left Baños at about six yesterday morning. The bus ride to Cuenca took all day — we only got into the city around dinnertime. We planned nothing more for our brief stay than a bit of down time in Cuenca, so after supper, we headed to a café for a game of cribbage over hot […]
Imagine zooming along winding mountain roads in a rickety old bus, listening to Bedouin Soundclash, chilling, feasting your eyes, insatiable. Imagine chatting away with an amicable Ecuadorian who points out sights: a famous waterfall, a deep ravine, a bridge off which to bungee jump, a good discoteca, his own restaurant… Imagine being dropped off the bus in an […]
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