| There's a famous commercial featuring a couple looking back wistfully on their cruise. They were treated like royalty, basically. Their minions were instructed not to disturb them until such-and-such a time. Tea was poured. Pillows were fluffed.
Eventually, they returned to their workaday lives, but they were comforted by those days of fluffed pillows and such.
An at-home vacation is kind of like that, or rather a mirror image of it.
When you come back from vacation, people may ask, "Where'd you go?" But more important is where you didn't go, the things you didn't do, the miles you didn't put on. That's what you find out when you stay home.
Having just completed an at-home vacation, its joys are still fresh in my mind.
Some people claim they are exhausted by spending a week of vacation on the home shores, claiming that they do too much work around the house, run too many errands, that kind of thing.
If you find yourself tired and distraught after a few days, you are doing it wrong.
Let me tell you how to do it right, and some of the fine attributes of this block of time spent at home. Consider these your guidelines for the AHV (At Home Vacation).
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