I put up the below photo on Instagram earlier this week with the below caption, and as I read through some of the comments, I realized: I've been feeling the same way and dealing with a lot of these same anxieties for most of the (almost) eight years...
Now that I'm back on the West Coast, I've been trying to check out a lot of weird and wonderful places that aren't too far from San Diego. One of the first on the list was Salvation Mountain. It's a literal man-made mountain of latex paint in the...
One of the reasons why I blog is simply to have the space to write: getting things “on paper” helps me to process my feelings and organize my thoughts. I also love having a record of my life over the past few years: a place that holds all of my...
To be honest, Denver Botanic Garden wasn't super high on my list of must-do things in the city. Before we arrived, my ideal itinerary was 50% hiking and 50% craft beer drinking. However, we had a bit of a scheduling snafu and the altitude affected me...
Full disclosure: I'm obviously a little biased to getting more people to listen to podcasts--my full-time job is at Gimlet Media (the HBO of audio, nbd!). But in my personal life, I've also become a very committed podcast listener: when I'm walking...
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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.