I grew up with the Golf Channel on in the background. My parents are both avid golfers (my dad just won the super senior Championship at their country club--just two years after winning the general club championship, and less than six months after...
For most of my stay in Portland, I never had to leave downtown: the World Domination Summit was held at the beautiful Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, I crashed with a few other girls at super-chic the Nines Hotel and I subsided on fresh finds from the...
When I was in middle school, I took part in a program at the local university that offered a variety of "college-type" courses for advanced students. Although I remember struggling through algebra, most of the classes I took were fun: photography...
The first thing that struck me about Reykjavik was just how little it felt like a national capital. Within hours of being there, we easily knew the layout of the city: the main pedestrian thoroughfare marked by neon bicycles, the large pond dotted...
When I saw that the high temperature for our trip to Iceland would be around 50 degrees, I expected to spend most of my time in layers and a woolen beanie--not a bathing suit. I was as surprised as anyone when I realized on our last day there that we...
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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.