I went into Jordan with very limited knowledge and low expectations--mostly because I didn't read the itinerary in as much detail as I should (and thus was a little shocked when I showed up and found out that "Captain's Camp" quite literally meant a...
When I was traveling through Jordan, staying in five-star hotels and being shuttled around in a comfortable bus with Wifi and a row all to myself and watching the sunset over the Dead Sea from my balcony, I realized that seeing the best a country has...
I'm not sure if I really knew what to expect from Jordan: I knew that there would be delicious falafel, the place where they shot Indiana Jones and perhaps some camels, but beyond that, I was completely open-minded (read: clueless). The one thing I...
I first started doing yoga in high school: my mom thought it would be good therapy after my first knee surgery. I thought it was boring, preferring to spend my time on "real" work-outs that involved a lot of high-energy cardio and weights sessions...
After an early Saturday morning run and a coffee from my favorite cafe in the Lower East Side, my friend Kate and I were heading out for the ultimate day in Brooklyn. Once we realized the train we wanted wasn't running on the weekend, we just hopped...
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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.