The question that I both love and hate (and get asked often): what's your favorite place to visit? Obviously, I'm all in on chatting about travel, reminiscing about the trips I've taken and giving recommendations on cool places to go. But it's also...
What a crazy weekend! To quickly sum up: we drove to Los Angeles on Thursday night to drop off Gertie with my friend Aly and then stayed with friends in Hancock Park, drove to Sacramento on Friday for that evening's wine tasting event, cleaned out my...
I’ve wanted to visit Seattle for a long time, but it never made sense as a weekend getaway from New York City. I had a feeling that I’d relocate to the West Coast eventually, and it was top of my list for when I did. So I was thrilled when the...
Fun fact: I have the opposite of a fear of heights. I constantly seek the sensation and the perspective of being high in the air, no matter how I'm there. I love helicopter rides, skyscrapers and rooftops, Ferris wheels, aerial trams, paragliding,...
The San Diego Zoo is probably (definitely?) the most popular tourist destination in San Diego, so as new residents of America's Finest City: we had to check it out! It's located in the heart of Balboa Park: we live a short walk from the northeast...
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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.