ABOUT ME

I'm a adrenlin junkie who gets a high on life. Enjoy meeting folks and learning about them. Folks are always amazed at the adventures I've experienced during my lifetime. I'm not overly handsome nor homely,a bit over weight which is why many folks are in wonder of all I've done. I'm honest, loyal, helpful and a caring person who you can trust with your life.

Interessen

Long distance touring on my bicycle, meeting folks from all walks of life and hearing about their life.

• animals
• running
• motorcycles
• billiards
• cycling
• adventure races
• scuba diving
• sports
• wrestling
• business
• cartography

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Lifelong adventurer Frank Briscoe doesn’t scare easily. Take his first experience on a bicycle — seven years old, his feet nowhere near the pedals, “my cousins balanced me on it while running alongside of me. They released me as I began rolling down a hill right into a clothesline. It immediately snapped me off my bike. It was an insane first ride!” Frank has always had a hunger for adventure and the scars to prove it. Frank has visited all 50 States and 8 foreign countries. Even just a sampling of Frank’s exploits could inspire the shyest of cyclists — or compel them to cover their eyes. Over the course of his life, Frank has scuba dived, raced motorcycles and a stock car, he’s run marathons, rock climbed, and walked the Grand Canyon rim to rim. He has whitewater rafted, sport rappelled, spelunked, and wrecked his knee, he’s free fallen off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas and off a bucking rodeo bull. Miraculously, he’s still in one piece! “I have broken a few bones and received more stitches than I can count,” Frank said, “but was only seriously injured once.” That’s not bad considering his remarkable myriad of adventures and memories to boot.

You’d think that after getting lost while wild cave exploring or charging down whitewater rapids Frank’s thirst for action would be sated. But there was one adventure Frank was lacking — “crossing America by bicycle was my biggest and oldest dream. I first decided to do it when I was a Boy Scout, around 1957. I never expected it would be 54 years before I actually did it!” Frank wanted to bike tour. And even though it had been on his bucket list since boy scouts, life got in the way of the epic cross-country tour.

When he isn’t out rustling cattle and wrestling whitewater, Frank lives in Nevada, Missouri, and owns a small billiards wholesale business, which his wife and nephew now manage and operate. In 2006, Frank discovered Adventure Cycling Association. “It was about that time when I decided to make my childhood dream of bicycling across America a reality. I learned about the organization’s maps and became a member.” Frank’s first tour was in June 2007 on the KATY Trail in Missouri, the longest rail-trail in the USA at 225 miles and counting. Frank was hooked.

To celebrate his 65th birthday, Frank finally crossed America by bike. From the upper northwest corner of America, the San Juan Islands in Washington State, to Key West, Florida, Frank traveled a distance of 6,343 miles in 126 days through 16 States. The best part? As always, the people. “All across America and around the world I have literally met thousands of people since taking up bicycle touring and not once was anyone mean-spirited. In fact, many have become my friends. The USA is not only geographically beautiful, the people are, too.”

Frank has been a Life Member of Adventure Cycling Association for one year. When asked why he said, “as I drove back from my “Crossing America” adventure, I felt like a caged animal in my car much like an animal must feel in a zoo. I missed that sensation of freedom I felt on my bike. I believe in the mission of Adventure Cycling, it inspires people to get off the couch, get outside and see America and the world from a new and improved perspective. Being a beneficiary of that mission, it is only right to give back to the organization by becoming a Life Member. It is my dream to continue bicycle touring until this old body one day wears out.”

Frank left me with a Mark Frost quote that aptly sums up his own indifference to nagging injury — “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow ... What a ride!!’” Frank’s exploration-slate is as full and inspiring as ever and still includes bike touring — the latest adventure will lead him from the headwaters of the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico or vise-versa by bicycle this fall.