"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
The other day, I had a flight delay on a trip that already felt like it was going to be too short.
To be perfectly honest, for as much travel as I do, I'm not very good at...
I had high expectations for Mexico City, and yet: it went above and beyond every one of them. The top-level takeaways: there are beautiful buildings, tree-lined streets and a selection of world-class museums. The food scene is outrageous: everything...
New York City in the winter is one of two things: completely magical or absolutely miserable: there is rarely anything in between. You're either in a life-size snow globe or you're spending a lot of brain power (and likely ruining a pair of boots)...
New York City is an incredible place for book lovers to enjoy. On top of having some of the most stunning libraries in the world and delightfully unexpected nooks to tuck away in with a book, it also has plenty of quirky and independent bookstores to...
When my friend Aly and I got together earlier this year in our new sunny chosen locale of Southern California, we reminisced on our time living together in Brooklyn: the rat we discovered living under our kitchen sink whom we christened Rhombus...
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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.