Tijuana doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation: I mean, who doesn't remember the iconic episode of The OC where everything goes wrong in the seediest part of TJ?! Although Tijuana wasn't exactly suuuuper high on my list of places to explore in...
Sometimes people ask me how I choose where I travel next, and it's honestly a pretty tough question--there's not really a good answer! Although there are some places that have been top of my list for years, figuring out the next destination is often...
I had high expectations for Mexico City, and yet: it went above and beyond every one of them. The top-level takeaways: there are beautiful buildings, tree-lined streets and a selection of world-class museums. The food scene is outrageous: everything...
Experiencing Day of the Dead (or Dia de los Muertos, as it's locally known) in Mexico was truly an incredible experience. The streets of Guadalajara, and particularly in the neighborhood of Tlaquepaque, were filled with intricate altars heaped with...
So much about my trip to Guadalajara surprised me: the historic downtown filled with neoclassical and European-influenced architecture, the fields of blue agave stretching as far as the eye can see, the market stuffed to the brim with everything one...
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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.