Right after I graduated from college, I flew to Europe for a five-week solo backpacking trip: affectionately, the trip that started it all. When I came home, I organized all of my photos and created a book, complete with little stories about what I'd...
Recently, I've had several friends exclaim to me their love of fall: pumpkin spice lattes, knit sweaters, chilly temperatures. I vehemently disagreed: I'm a summer girl, through and through. I don't like pumpkin-flavored anything, I hate wearing long...
Comparison is the thief of joy.
It’s one of those things that you know, you KNOW, even though you can’t quite stop comparing yourself to your friends and your neighbors and your co-workers and bloggers and the people you follow on Instagram...
As of today, I don't have any travel planned beyond a long weekend in Sacramento in September. No plane tickets booked, no hotels reserved. No beaches to look forward to, no itineraries to plan, no suitcases to pack.
It's a disconcerting feeling:...
To preface this entire post: the biggest thing I learned at World Domination Summit is that I don't like conferences. I don't like large crowds of people and I don't like schedules. Small talk drains me. I prefer exploring a city on my own, by...
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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.