A Home For Adventures

a travel blog for homebodies,
inspiring adventure in the everyday

Hi, welcome!

I'm Ruth, a travel lover, reader, project-doer, casual runner, aspiring yogi, wife, and mom to a curious little girl and energetic little boy. Around here we look for adventure in the everyday mundane tasks and in the once in a lifetime events.

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Mar 8

Mar 8 Spain for a Month, Part 2

Ruth H

Travel

We arrived at our local airport amid swirls of snow, but the flight was still scheduled on time. As we settled into our seats and the airplane filled with other passengers, I was relieved to finally be on our way.

Feb 21

Feb 21 Spain for a Month, Part 1

Ruth H

Travel

Like most things, it started as a question, a little tiny idea. Could we do a Spanish immersion experience for our toddler? Actually, wait, back up. There were questions and little tiny ideas before that one.

Mar 14

Mar 14 A Year of Small Experiments: Summer 2018

Ruth H

Small Experiments

The temperature here is in the 50s today, there’s been great progress on the snow-melting front, and our yard is a huge puddle with chunks of ice barely hanging on.

Sep 14

Sep 14 A Year of Small Experiments: DuoLingo

Ruth H

Small Experiments

The stores of digital pictures went untouched in May, but I did get started with DuoLingo Spanish. This feels like accomplishment enough for a month that always ends up busier than I anticipate at the outset.

Sep 6

Sep 6 When Toddler Travel Gets Good

Ruth H

Travel

She's a couple months past her second birthday, and I would classify my expectations for a long weekend in Boston and New Hampshire as moderate.

Sep 4

Sep 4 Practices that are Saving my Sanity

Ruth H

Life at Home

I originally wrote this in mid-April, when the snow had been coming down for 36 hours and counting, 6 inches? a foot?

Jul 31

Jul 31 Choosing Travel, Some Background

Ruth H

Travel

I grew up with a little exposure to travel - a couple summer visits to relatives out west, a winter vacation somewhere in the Caribbean at an age too young to really remember, road trips along the east coast.