With plenty of travel bloggers making plans for the upcoming TBEX taking place in Keystone, Colorado (unfortunately, I won't be attending--I'll be celebrating my birthday in Croatia!), I've been reminiscing about my summer spent in Colorado...
Chico State (officially known as California State University, Chico) is known throughout California as a party school. To be fair, it certainly had its hey-day in the 80s and 90s when it was named the top party school in the nation by Playboy. But...
Sacramento is often dismissed as a cow town capital…because it is. The skyline rises out of flat farmland, recently converted to suburbia. It's not nearly as sophisticated, or liberal, or fashionable as nearby neighbor San Francisco. There's less...
Despite growing up by a decidedly un-redneck family in the suburbs, I was raised on country music. Now my iTunes library is fairly eclectic with plenty of indie music, pop hits and underground hiphop, but it still has its share of classic and new...
When I'm traveling and people ask me where I'm from, I say "California." And no matter where I am in the world, it's remarkable how many people reply either in song or by exclaiming Hotel California!
My friend Rex is the ultimate mix tape...
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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.