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Travel Updates for 2026

/ Dusty Lynn Baker / Leave a comment

This year has been a wonderful, full-time nomadic experience! Since January, my adult son and I have visited Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, and Albania. We are currently based in Albania on a 1-year tourist visa and have the following plans (thus far) for the remainder of 2026:

August: For two weeks in August we'll be on a whirlwind train tour through Italy. Taking a ferry across the Adriatic Sea from Albania to Italy and back, we'll be traveling via Trenitalia to Rome, Milan, Modena, Ancona, Foggio, and Brindisi.

September: My youngest daughter will be joining us for a quick visit in September via Poland, so we'll be touring Albania by car, with an additional planned overnight in Corfu, Greece, via ferry. Looking forward to day trips (from our base in Vlore) to Tirane, Fier, Sarande, Gjirokaster, and Berat.

November: This month marks 27-years since my time as an American National Red Cross worker with the US military in Kosovo in 1999. I'll be returning to Gjilan, Kosovo, and Skopje, North Macedonia, while adding Prizren, Kosovo, and Progradec, Albania, to the road trip.
To see more about my travels, visit my YouTube channel Her Veteran Journey, 
where I discuss why we're traveling, how we chose our locations, travel gear, and more!

Such a Big World!

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Being in Albania currently has me thinking of about where my next stop will be after another month of Germany in July. While here in Albania though, I plan to visit the surrounding countries and explore more cultures.

Kosovo, however, is a special return for me. I was there as a Red Cross manager with the US Army in Gjilan in 1999 while it was still an active zone. I can’t wait to see the beauty of it’s recovery and to see a happy people, moved on from the war. But for now, I’m at 19 of 195. That’s just shy of 10% of the world’s recognized countries.