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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Jan 30

Jan 30 Reimagining Pandemic Life: Goals for 2021

Ruth H

Small Experiments

I feel both a pull to comment on 2020 and a desire to leave it in the past now that the calendar has finally turned. While there were both highs and lows, as is always the case, the heartache and challenges do stand out a bit more boldly for 2020.

Aug 17

Aug 17 A Year of Small Experiments: Cleaning up the Basics

Ruth H

Small Experiments

In our family, I am the reader and my husband is decidedly not. There's no criticism in that, it's simply each of our preference. However, he decided to include reading in his 2018 goals and committed to reading one book each quarter.

Aug 2

Aug 2 A Year of Small Experiments

Ruth H

Small Experiments

I've never given much thought to New Year's resolutions - they weren't a big deal in my family growing up, and I never found myself in a circle of people who jumped into them in my early adult life either. I read Gretchen Rubin's Better than Before a few years back…

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.