I spent last week in Las Vegas and managed to get through a whole seven days without setting foot in a single club. Between catching the flu the week before and the stress of managing my very first trade show, I was simply thrilled to have an entire...
The first time I went to Las Vegas was for my 21st birthday. I flew out for a fancy dinner and Cirque du Soleil show with my parents before meeting up with two girlfriends for three days of drinking and dancing. It sounds like the perfect...
I turn 30 tomorrow! After catching up with girlfriends in London and having a solo adventure in Slovenia (my 39th country, with 37 of them visited this past decade), I’m back in Paris (arguably my favorite city in the world) to properly celebrate...
Once in a while, I get obsessed with a place or an idea and must make it happen. Exhibit A: Seven Magic Mountains. It's a large-scale public artwork by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, featuring "seven thirty- to thirty-five-foot high dayglow totems...
Between moving and marriage, 2017 was a little light on the big travel plans. Although my biggest travel priority is taking advantage of our San Diego location and exploring more of the West Coast, Mexico and Canada, I'm also hoping to check some of...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.