Brian Thacker is the author of Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus (2001), Planes, Trains and Elephants (2002), The Naked Man Festival (2004), I'm Not Eating Any of That Foreign Muck (2005), and Where's Wallis? (2006). In his travels, he has visited 62 countries (63 if you count Tasmania). He lives in Melbourne with his wife, Natalie, and daughter Jasmine.