First of all, let me just talk about how confused everyone around me has been because of my visits to Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine within a few weeks of each other. My mom thought that Jillian and I popped over to the other side of the...
My friend Jillian and I decided to take our second annual friendship getaway (see: Bucks County) to Maine: it was a state that neither of us had visited, and when we booked in the heart of January, we had grand dreams of wildflowers, sunshine and...
Without a doubt, the best $50 I've spent this year was on a membership to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: it's opened me up to a whole world of blooms! Although it's free on Tuesdays and Saturday mornings, it's been great to have the freedom to go any...
If there is one thing I get FOMO over, it's flowers. I realize how incredibly lame this sounds, but I honestly get so excited about the fleeting nature of blooms in the spring. You only have a few weeks to enjoy all of the flowers, and you never know...
If it's not already very clear, I'm a big believer in weekend trips: not only do I work full-time and thus have to be very particular about how I spend my precious PTO days, but I think that you can get so much rejuvenation from just a few days in a...
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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.