Every time I go home, I feel a little luckier that I grew up in Sacramento. As a kid, I thought that every "downtown" was built on a grid: I would show up in new cities and be confused that the streets weren't numbered and lettered. I spent my...
Whenever I visit San Francisco, I usually stay in the Marina. One of my close friends from college has lived in a gorgeous place on Lombard and Divisadero, and I've been crashing there since I worked in high-tech PR in Silicon Valley. For the longest...
I spent a few days last week in San Francisco for a work event, and I never quite managed to get on West Coast time. To be honest, it didn't bother me that much: I much prefer early mornings and early nights to sleeping in and staying out late. Even...
I grew up in Elk Grove, one of many suburbs that sprouted up around Sacramento in the early 1990's. Although I went to elementary and middle school around the corner from my house, I went to a private Catholic high school in the heart of Sacramento....
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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.