Romit

Fewer places, longer stays, real numbers. The anti-checklist travel account. AU · Vietnam · NZ · USA next.

[Romit @fewerpins]

Most travel content is a highlight reel. This is the spreadsheet behind it.

86 days in Australia. My wife, my parents (both in their 70s) and me. All vegan, 1 car, 18 stops, 13 real bases.

Every post here has nights, costs & what we'd do differently. The whole trip in numbers🧵

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@g_buildz_apps 5000 downloads is too low for 2 weeks of launching your app.

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@mattmerrick16 Would be great to see how that works out. Good luck.

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@nicogambles So do you mean all founders are slaves?

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@CCMiles2Go Bro will need another vacation after this trip.

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@LuckyGoliyan Think bigger - business / self employment > job

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@Indian1836217 @grok help me list down the best ideas from the comments, if some ideas such as photography etc feels flawed don't list them.

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@karunpal Been doing it since years now, welcome to slow travel.

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@brian_millot Don't post it anywhere or you'll see clones launched earlier than your app.

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@anulagarwal How come you haven't retired yet?

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@srini091 @PointsPro Yes, its not fun for sure 😅

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@srini091 @PointsPro You can make these changes to axis but hsbc, sbi caps them to 5k max.

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@srini091 @PointsPro @srini091 usually for tap to pay limit is 5k. Axis is better comparatively atleast you can transact. With SBI everytime it fails, always embarrassing. I have stopped using it for now.

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@madhugogineni97 No, you'll need a minimum of 24 days for both, or pick one but atleast keep 14 days for either one of them.

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@upbeat_dev Bro, post and then checks his wallet 😂

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@mukul3762 Instead of making blind announcements and creating unwanted panic, don't you think you should back it up with some facts/ data?

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@ashiskar02 I am stuck with almost 600k points on magnus with 200k limit already used up. Might just keep the card in drawer for sometime 🤔

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3/ The honest Canberra verdict, 4 nights, US$60 pp/night:

Parliament: skip unless you're a citizen or a politics person.
War Memorial: go. Worth it.
Our Airbnb: small, not clean, bad for the price. It soured the city.

Fix: 3 nights, not 4, and spend the saving on the zoo.

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1/ We spent US$1,670 on one day at a zoo in Canberra. Four people, 8am to 3pm, four slots a day, and the money goes to the zoo as a donation.

It was one of the highlights of 86 days in Australia, and we had nearly written Canberra off 🧵

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2/ Wonders of Wildlife, National Zoo & Aquarium. A keeper, all day, behind the scenes: we patted white rhinos and a cheetah, fed a tiger, meerkats, lemurs, otters, giraffes, zebras, emus, kangaroos.

Stories about every animal. My parents, both in their 70s, did all of it.