David Merkel (Aleph Blog): I received advice not to go into investing when I was younger, and I put it off for about five years as a result, and took a very indirect route to make the rest of the trip. (abnormalreturns.com)
There are no direct flights to Ecuador from Australia or New Zealand, though there are two main indirect routings, one via Santiago in Chile, the other via the US. (srfer.com)
Also as regular Travelfishers will know, we're big fans of taking scenic indirect routes so while you can shuttle between the two on an overnight train, you can just as easily spend a month getting from one to the other. (travelfish.org)