I spent last weekend at Wilderness Field Notes, the inaugural event put on by The Billycan at Morningside Camps and Cabins in the Adirondacks. It was essentially summer camp for hipsters, set amongst the crisp days and colorful foliage of autumn's...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's no better season than autumn in New York City. I never truly understood the appeal of the onset of fall until I moved back east--especially since I detest pumpkin-spice-everything. But I've learned...
San Francisco is one of those cities that I never know quite exactly how I feel about it. I've spent a lot of time there: back-to-school shopping in Union Square when I was growing up, exploring Fisherman's Wharf whenever we had foreign exchange...
When we spent a long weekend in Niagara Falls, one of the highlights was definitely a helicopter ride with Niagara Helicopters. Although the ride itself only lasts 15 minutes, it's such an epic and unexpected view that shows you how intense the...
I have so many fond memories of Santa Cruz: it's essentially the closest ocean beach and boardwalk to Sacramento, and we often did day trips when I had a soccer tournament in the area or rented a house in nearby Aptos for a week. The Pacific is...
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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.