Ep. 545: Fulfilling Your Parent's Dream Through Adventure - Tom Knox
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes our adventure is about so much more than our desire to fulfill our dreams. For Tom Knox's parents, driving the length of the US west coast was always something they wanted to do. However, due to cancer and Alzheimer's, that dream remained unfulfilled when they died. In an effort to carry on the adventurous spirit of his parents, Tom decided he would bike the route in remembrance of them and in an effort to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer's. Tom is a normal guy, taking precious PTO in order to make this adventure happen. We caught up with him a few weeks before he left.
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| 0:00.0 | I thought about doing something like this for, you know, very long time since I was a kid. |
| 0:06.1 | I just never thought it was within my capability. |
| 0:10.4 | And reading some of these books, I find it's totally within my realm. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:30.4 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey folks, welcome to the show. |
| 0:45.1 | Today we're talking to Tom Knox. |
| 0:49.1 | He is, you know, average, everyday guy. |
| 1:14.2 | He's got a family, he's got a job, doesn't get a whole lot of time off, and he's using a three-week break to bike the length of the U.S. West Coast to raise support for Alzheimer's, something that his mother suffered from. And that trip is actually in honor of his parents who always have wanted to drive the U.S. West Coast, which is, I have to say, an amazing drive or bike ride. |
| 1:19.8 | It is a beautiful stretch of country. And we're talking to Tom right before he goes. And I know we've kind of done a lot of these lately, these everyday folk who are getting ready to do an adventure. |
| 1:25.1 | And we get to hear from them right before they leave. If you don't like those, let me know. |
| 1:29.1 | I love them because it's just so relatable to hear from somebody who is doing something |
| 1:34.6 | that's really out of the box for themselves and who isn't sponsored. |
| 1:38.1 | I'm not sponsored, and I'm sure you're not either. |
| 1:40.5 | There might be a few of you out there, but most of us are not. |
| 1:43.1 | Tom comes from a line of |
| 1:44.7 | adventurous people. His father just started a ski resort one day. Pretty cool. It's still in |
| 1:49.9 | operation up in Canada. But be sure to follow Tom. His Facebook will be in the show notes. |
| 1:55.4 | Today's episode is brought to you by Athletic Brewing, Non-Alcoholic Craft Beer. That's right. Non-alcoholic. Because if you're |
| 2:04.2 | like Tom and your training for something, you know, what you intake, what you eat and your diet is |
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