“That was an experience,” he said.
He got his nursing diploma in two years and after that graduation realized that the mental health side of health care was where he fit.
“When we finished nursing school we had various aspects of health care we could move into and nobody in my class picked mental health, I figured I’d give it a shot.
His plan is to start using the Malahat as the next level of training, as it could be like the Rockies.
“My friend Ken Thomson will be the only other person accompanying me on the journey,” he said.
The goal of $10,000 is a reach, says Buxton says but by mid-April he was making pretty good headway on the fundraising.