From what I can figure out this is the longest one that: is on land. In/on a first world country (with a good level of logistical infrastructure) for the next 30-50 years.

There are other ones but the path of totality doesn’t pass completely on land or if it does it passes through Libya or something.

reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_th...

I believe there's one in Sydney towards the end of the decade.

Such a procrastinator's response. Who knows where someone might be in their life in a few years, physically, medically, financially, whatevs. You might put off this to wait for something closer, but then the day of it's cloudy or something. If you have the chance to do it today, go for it. Plus, the more times the merrier.

However, if it's not your thing, then it's not your thing. Nothing anyone says will really change that. But discouraging someone else is kind of an asshat move

By all means, the OP should go. Eclipses are cool!

But they weren't asking if they should go, they were asking how to convince someone else to spend 30 hours travelling for 4 minutes of eclipse. My answer was that they should roll it into a larger trip, to amortize the cost.

I was giving them an opinion on how I'd feel in that person's shoes. And I say this as someone who has travelled for eclipses, and will travel for this one.

Aye, but they've already put it off until now, so it can't be THAT much of a priority.

maybe they have more of a desire now than they did in the past, or maybe they are finally in a place in life where they're able to.