Albania
November 6-14 2021 Rather than a play-by-play of what two western people did on a caravan trip through Albania, I would like to instead reflect on this country as a whole, and what I want to be sure to remember. Despite its prime location, tucked between beloved Greece and Croatia, many people don't know anything about it and if you do, perhaps you've heard bad things. Albania is a hidden little gem that’s been trying to join the EU since 2003. Just weeks before we were there
Montenegro
October 29th- November 6th 2021 Cigarette smoke poured out of the booth at the Croatia/Montenegro border crossing, and the guards didn’t give a shit about our Covid vaccine passports. We were officially outside of the EU. Someone told us “If you ironed Montenegro out, it would be the size of Russia!”…I don't know about that, but without ironing, it’s about the size of New Jersey. It is indeed a mountainous land, and we once again found ourselves driving our big boat up tiny,
Croatia
October 20- 30th, 2021 We left Slovenia with no clear community to go to next. Much of Eastern Europe has either not caught on to the Eco-village movement, or is just still so rooted in it’s authentic traditional communities that it doesn’t need them. This combined with our deadline to get to Greece by the end of November kept us from a longer stay. Nevertheless, we didn’t want to just zoom through and miss it all, so we meandered down the entire length of the Croatian coast,
