I went into Jordan with very limited knowledge and low expectations--mostly because I didn't read the itinerary in as much detail as I should (and thus was a little shocked when I showed up and found out that "Captain's Camp" quite literally meant a...
I'm not sure if I really knew what to expect from Jordan: I knew that there would be delicious falafel, the place where they shot Indiana Jones and perhaps some camels, but beyond that, I was completely open-minded (read: clueless). The one thing I...
After an early Saturday morning run and a coffee from my favorite cafe in the Lower East Side, my friend Kate and I were heading out for the ultimate day in Brooklyn. Once we realized the train we wanted wasn't running on the weekend, we just hopped...
I can't believe it's already been a year since I visited Southeast Asia. I spent a glorious three months reading on beaches, eating from makeshift motorcycle food carts, riding motorbikes around Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
I was nervous...
I first fell in love with Boston when the autumn was a million shades of red and gold: my obsession with the Northeastern city deepened in the deep, clear blue of late winter-bordering-on-spring.
When I visited Boston in October, it...
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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.