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Darrin DuFord has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, BBC Travel, GoNomad, Vice, Perceptive Travel, Travel Channel's World Hum, and McSweeney's, among others. His latest book, Breakfast for Alligators: Quests, Showdowns, and Revelations in the Americas, won a gold medal in the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. His work appears in several anthologies, including Stories of Music Volume 1, Adventures of a Lifetime: Travel Tales from around the World, and The Best Travel Writing Volume 11. He lives in Queens, New York, the nation's most diverse county.