When we first planned our trip to Maine, we thought we'd stay in Portland for the entire time--and then we realized Maine is BIG. And a lot of the good stuff is outside of the cities! Maine is a state of small towns and wide open spaces: for...
One of the things I now consider myself an expert in: packing for a weekend away in a carry-on. I cannot count how many times I've left New York City on Thursday night and come back on a Sunday night, but it has been many--and it has always been in a...
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...
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...
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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.