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Anyone else pushing their sabbatical for when the world finally opens up?

I'd like to take some time off and decompress. Travel a little, learn a few things and eventually work on my side projects but the world being closed is a big mental blocker as that doesn't permit free travel.

Waiting for the world to open up so that I can sell everything and buy a 1 way ticket to Bali. Don't see it happening anytime soon though.

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The world isn't closed. I've been traveling for most of 2021, and when I started, I was "shocked" to find fellow travelers who've been traveling throughout 2020 as well.

Asia is fully closed. That's due to their culture. Latin America is fully open, due to the same reason. The Covid restrictions map is the new map of the world. Pick a green spot and go.

> Asia is fully closed. That's due to their culture.

The famous shared culture of 3 billion people. /s

Not sure which countries you were looking at, but there are some where they do not have sufficient supplies of vaccines. That might be why they're closed to visitors.

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