I was born and raised in California. The word California often conjures up images of palm trees, the Beach Boys, convertibles with the top down. It's Hollywood or San Francisco, celebrities or liberals, beaches or vineyards.
It's not often...
Sacramento is often dismissed as a cow town capital…because it is. The skyline rises out of flat farmland, recently converted to suburbia. It's not nearly as sophisticated, or liberal, or fashionable as nearby neighbor San Francisco. There's less...
I have a love/hate relationship with my hometown of Sacramento. I love the tree-lined streets of Midtown, the view over the river in Old Sacramento, the Capitol Building when it gleams in the sunshine. But I've lived in the suburbs south of the...
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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.