When we first planned our trip to Maine, we thought we'd stay in Portland for the entire time--and then we realized Maine is BIG. And a lot of the good stuff is outside of the cities! Maine is a state of small towns and wide open spaces: for...
First of all, let me just talk about how confused everyone around me has been because of my visits to Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine within a few weeks of each other. My mom thought that Jillian and I popped over to the other side of the...
My friend Jillian and I decided to take our second annual friendship getaway (see: Bucks County) to Maine: it was a state that neither of us had visited, and when we booked in the heart of January, we had grand dreams of wildflowers, sunshine and...
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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.