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Friday 4:30 p.m. | Enjoy happy hour Start at one of the city's best happy hours (3 p.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays) at Ironside Fish & Oyster Bar. This Little [...]

For families with children, we found half a dozen beaches in the United States and Mexico, each tailored to a particular summer activity. A family beach vacation is an American [...]

For families with children, we found half a dozen beaches in the United States and Mexico, each tailored to a particular summer activity. A family beach vacation is an American [...]

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Friday 3 p.m. | Cool off with flavor Mérida is one of Mexico's steamiest cities. Icy treats are the answer. Pola Gelato Shop, in the Santa Lucía neighborhood of the [...]

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Friday 3 p.m. | Get a View From the Top Start with a post-travel pick-me-up at LOKUM, a Turkish sweet shop on State Street, Santa Barbara's main drag. Take your [...]

Byline: Freda Moon Friday 3 p.m. | ride the waterfront Start your weekend as many Panamanian families do, on the Amador Causeway. This man-made peninsula, built from rock unearthed during [...]

Friday 3 p.m. | ride the waterfront Start your weekend as many Panamanian families do, on the Amador Causeway. This man-made peninsula, built from rock unearthed during the Panama Canal's [...]

Byline: Freda Moon Stepping off the plane in Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, I gulped the thick, tropical air. After three days in Mexico's high-elevation capital, inhaling [...]

Stepping off the plane in Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, I gulped the thick, tropical air. After three days in Mexico's high-elevation capital, inhaling the vital, pungent [...]

With its Mission-style facades and showy tropical foliage, Santa Barbara could be a commercial for the California good life. It can be easy to underestimate the struggles of a place [...]

Ninety miles north of San Francisco, Mendocino County is just far enough away to have narrowly escaped the Bay Area's radical transformation during the tech boom years. In contrast to [...]

Byline: Freda Moon Ninety miles north of San Francisco, Mendocino County is just far enough away to have narrowly escaped the Bay Area's radical transformation during the tech boom years. [...]

The article focuses on how San Diego, traditionally seen as an underrated and picturesque city, is rapidly evolving with new cultural and recreational developments while still preserving its historic charm and traditions.

As a travel destination, California's capital gets no respect. Despite sitting at the confluence of two impressive rivers, with sprawling shade trees that make much of the city feel like [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON As a travel destination, California's capital gets no respect. Despite sitting at the confluence of two impressive rivers, with sprawling shade trees that make much of the [...]

Even as strong earthquakes have shaken the region, the centuries-old city of Oaxaca remains largely unrattled. In the shadow of Monte Albán, the hilltop capital of the Zapotec civilization, this [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON Correction Appended Even as strong earthquakes have shaken the region, the centuries-old city of Oaxaca remains largely unrattled. In the shadow of Monte Albán, the hilltop capital [...]

Rates Nine rooms, starting at $85 with a shared bath. Basics Beyond promoting its status as ''World's First Kickstarter-Funded Hotel,'' the Jennings is an unusual hotel. The formerly dilapidated two-story [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt was Friday night at Bacchanal, a lusty backyard wine shop, open-air restaurant and performance stage deep in a postindustrial corner of New Orleans's Bywater neighborhood, a levee away [...]

Hours in any direction from the nearest decent-size city, Wallowa County, Ore., is remote even by the standards of the rural Northwest. To get there, my husband, our daughter and [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON Correction Appended Hours in any direction from the nearest decent-size city, Wallowa County, Ore., is remote even by the standards of the rural Northwest. To get there, [...]

Though Mister Jiu's black and gray-green facade and idiosyncratic signage contrast with its neighbors in Chinatown in San Francisco, the chef Brandon Jew's year-old restaurant seems at home among medical [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON Though Mister Jiu's black and gray-green facade and idiosyncratic signage contrast with its neighbors in Chinatown in San Francisco, the chef Brandon Jew's year-old restaurant seems at [...]

It is hard to recommend taking a 19-hour flight with a toddler to get a root canal with a straight face. But after going on just such a mission in [...]

Let's get this out of the way: I'm not in the business of giving medical advice. I can't say if traveling abroad for dental work -- or a hip replacement [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRecent decades have brought big, fraught, much-discussed changes to Brooklyn. But south of Williamsburg, the borough's character -- both boisterous and architecturally beautiful, worldly with working-class roots -- remains. [...]

Sometimes budget travel means spending as little as possible to take the longest, farthest, most ambitious adventure possible. Other times, you just need a break. If the goal of a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMaybe it's because I hadn't been to Hawaii since I was a child, when everything seemed big. But even from 10,000 feet, the Big Island was surprisingly, strikingly large. [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON Correction Appended Maybe it's because I hadn't been to Hawaii since I was a child, when everything seemed big. But even from 10,000 feet, the Big Island [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOn a hot September day in Brooklyn, I got off the G train at Metropolitan Avenue and walked through Williamsburg, a neighborhood so thoroughly celebrated it has become something [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON Correction Appended On a hot September day in Brooklyn, I got off the G train at Metropolitan Avenue and walked through Williamsburg, a neighborhood so thoroughly celebrated [...]

We drove out a zigzagging peninsula to Finley Point Unit, a state park with a boat launch, a small public marina and a row of campsites along the lakeshore. The [...]

Does a multiday, multistate drive with young kids sound like the furthest thing from a vacation? If so, you're not alone. I asked seasoned family road-trippers for their hard-earned advice [...]

At $120 a night during Florida's notorious spring break, the Art Deco Hotel Shelley had seemed like a bargain. It even included a free airport shuttle to the hotel's South [...]

Looking to take an unconventional, and cheap, family vacation in the Florida Keys? Consider the camper van. Here's how to get started. Choose Your Van First, you need to decide [...]

No city in the country is more exciting than Los Angeles right now. Despite pop culture portrayals of Los Angeles as either comically superficial or darkly dystopian, the nation's second [...]

Byline: FREDA MOON No city in the United States is more exciting than Los Angeles right now. Despite pop culture portrayals of the city as either comically superficial or darkly [...]

From Maine to Florida, Washington State to Southern California, we are featuring six islands that make for ideal escapes--into the past, into nature, into luxury. Check back each day this [...]

This is the first of a column every other month by the writer Freda Moon that will explore the challenges and joys of traveling with a child on a tight [...]

Baby blanket, burp rags, teething toy, bottles, breast pump, swim diaper, bathing suit, sunglasses, sun hat, two kinds of infant sunscreen, diaper cream, diapers, wipes, changing pad, onesies, footies, sun [...]

The tent, designed for solo backpacking, was as sleek as a kite. For years, my husband and I squeezed into it. Then, last summer, we added a third person to [...]