Damon Tabor Damon Tabor is a New York City-based freelance journalist who has traveled extensively in Asia, South America, and Europe. His stories on conflict, drug trafficking, black markets, and the environment have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Backpacker, and Rolling Stone, among other outlets. Damon's Rolling Stone article "Border of Madness" was the basis of the Academy Award-nominated 2015 documentary "Cartel Land." Most recently, he produced "The Trade," a five-part documentary about the heroin epidemic that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on Showtime.• Recipient of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for his book “The Mountain and the Burning Sky,” to be published by Random House• Noted in the “Best American Travel Writing” anthology• Received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process