One of my favorite things we did on our visit to Los Angeles was rent bikes on a sunny afternoon: we visited the (unexpected and wonderful) Venice Canals, grabbed coffee at the uber-cool TOMS Store on Abbot Kinney, took a little wander through the...
The main reason why we went to Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago? To visit friends! Both my boyfriend and I have quite a few friends in the LA area, and while we didn't get to see nearly as many of them as we would have liked--we learned valuable...
If there was one thing that completed surprised me in the best possible way on my recent trip to Los Angeles, it was the Venice Canals. A few LA locals had recommended checking them out, so when the friends we were staying with suggested a bike ride...
Growing up in Sacramento does not breed a love of Southern California. We take pride in being from Nor Cal, harboring a hate of the Lakers and the smog and the traffic, a pride in our farms and lakes and mountains, and a suspicion about how genuine...
One of the best things about attending Chico State (other than all of those parties) was Bidwell Park: the third largest municipal park in the United States was just a short bike ride from campus. We spent lazy sunny afternoons splashing around in...
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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.