After graduating from Columbia University, Darrin DuFord co-founded the New York City band Motor Betty and began traveling frequently, performing on the Jenny Jones Show and across venues on both American coasts. After the band retired, he began channeling his international wanderlust into travel articles for such publications as Transitions Abroad, GoNOMAD.com, PerceptiveTravel.com, and Iguana.
His debut book Is There a Hole in the Boat? Tales of Travel in Panama without a Car won the silver medal in the 2007 Lowell Thomas Journalism Competition and was
chosen by ForeWord Magazine as a finalist for their 2006 Book of the Year Awards. He lives in Queens, New York, the nation's most diverse county.
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