It’s been a little over 4 months since I have finished another big lap travelling around the world. In the past few months, I have been writing my book, “Tales of Life on Tour”, and have now written pretty much all I want to include so far. I have also been spending some time recently looking into the logistics/visas of visiting the final 50 countries etc… and learning a bit more about the places I’ve yet to visit.

The problem is, the book I have written is a fair bit shorter in length than I anticipated, as well as it just doesn’t feel complete. This book, and completing my goal of visiting every country is my “north star”, I guess, and it doesn’t feel right releasing a lackluster book. Sure, I have travel stories of fun and partying in places like Europe and South-East Asia, but honestly, you can walk into any pub in Sydney and probably find a bloke who has better stories than me in those regards.

For my book, I chose rather to include stories of the less travelled countries, the more dangerous destinations, the places off the beaten path.

But I had less stories to write down than I had imagined originally.

That’s not to say that I don’t have many cool stories already written. But I also want to write about countries like North Korea and Russia, I feel like visiting more countries will further shape how I feel about the world as a whole.

I look at the list of the remaining 50 countries to visit, and to be honest, I’m not particularly excited to visit many of them at all. But these are the lesser touristed places that I’m sure will bring about more captivating stories to tell in the future.

I will post a chapter preview of the book here later, but I don’t expect to release it until I finish visiting every country.

I turned 30 last year, and for the first time in over a decade, I no longer feel obsessed with graffiti. Ever since I started writing at the age of 19, it’s what consumed me. I always wanted to put up the most stickers, paint the most spots, hit the most cities/towns etc… I was very ego driven and wanted to do the most.

Now it’s the first time in many years I appear to have lost that drive. It’s not that I have quit writing, I just feel like I care a lot less and have seemingly aged out of it. I used to see graffiti in heaven spots and feel FOMO, I felt the need to do spots like that to prove myself, I would look up to people like that.

Nowadays I see people who are hella active, pushing boundaries, painting good spots and I just think, “oh awesome, I would have thought that was super cool when I was younger”.

The idea of “getting up”, and trying to prove myself isn’t really that appealing to me anymore. I guess it’s growing up. I really enjoy “cutty” graffiti nowadays, just exploring random spots and doing a few tags/ hollows with some solid markers, rather than bringing a heavy backpack of cans like I used to. I still enjoy travelling to new cities/countries and doing a little bit of graffiti everywhere I go, but it’s definitely not the main focus anymore. I don’t really care as much if my stuff is seen or if I’m known anymore. The second decade of my graffiti career is just going to be a bit different.

Graffiti was the catalyst that got me “out there”, to try and explore and see more of the world, but it no longer has the priority that it used to. I find lots of joy in just being in nature, striking up conversations with people from different countries/cultures, visiting places for the first time, trying new foods/experiences, it seems all the side effects of graffiti are what I enjoy more these days.

I’m happy I achieved what I wanted to achieve, graffiti-wise, and I look forward to the next chapters of my life.

I don’t know when I will finish the tour and visit every country, I still have some real-life dramas to deal with….

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Last Update: March 15, 2026