Athens resident and University graduate Fred Birchmore has done more in one lifetime than most people could even imagine.

He was the first man to ride a bicycle around the world and was the first known foreigner to come out of Afghanistan alive since Marco Polo.

He’s done everything from camping out under 2,000-year-old olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane to sleeping on a boat in the Sea of Galilee to living in a cave on Capri.

But despite these excursions, Birchmore — who was born in Athens and has lived here all his 93 years — said his 65-year-marriage has been his greatest adventure.

“Would you look at my young wife? Sixty-five years, and we’re still on our honeymoon. I’m still alive because of her,” Birchmore said of his wife Willa Deane.

“Fred tells people we met in the backseat of his car,” she said. “We had gone to Stone Mountain with friends, and he was our driver.”

And like the rest of Birchmore’s adventures, the honeymoon didn’t disappoint.

The newlyweds rode a tandem bike on a 4,500-mile journey through Cuba living off coconut milk and guava pasta, which, Willa Deane said, is “the worst stuff you’ll ever taste.”

“I never pedaled one bit,” Birchmore said. “I tell people she carried me through Cuba.”

But Birchmore did just fine on his adventures without his wife.

He swam in the baths Marc Anthony built for Cleopatra, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and the Inca Trail in Peru solo, has practiced yoga since he was two and can walk the length of Sanford Stadium’s field on his hands.

And Birchmore hasn’t lost any of the charm that helped him cross the continents throughout his lifetime.

“I think the best conversation I ever had was with 5,000 turkeys,” Birchmore said, showing off a picture of him conversing with the turkeys.

But like all epic stories, Birchmore’s life hasn’t been without its challenges.

He tore his Achilles tendon six weeks before he had to carry the Olympic torch through Athens in 1996. To ensure he could still carry the flame, Birchmore walked backwards around the Spec Towns Track and would do the high step marching bands use in routines.

“The campus police stopped and asked me if I was on drugs,” he said.

And not all of Birchmore’s adventures have been confined to exotic locales.

During World War II, he was injured in battle. Doctors said he wouldn’t live, and if he did, he would be so weak he wouldn’t be able to lift a pencil.

“I decided then and there I was going to be the toughest old man there ever was,” he said.

Birchmore has written two books — “Around the World on a Bicycle” and “Miracles in My Life: Tails of a Happy Wanderer.”

“I wanted to call the second book ‘God is My Co-Pilot,’ but a man I met briefly in the Gobi Desert had already taken the title,” he said.