Ken Campbell - Photo: Dred Perine/The News Tribune File
A couple of weeks ago we talked about Ken
Campbell's quest to become the first person to circumnavigate Vancouver Island
during the winter.
That came to a halt when he tore his left rotator
cuff in the Johnstone Strait north of Sayward.
"It was tough in the sense that I had been
planning for it for a year - budgeting the time, the money, the time off. In
that sense it was a very hard decision to make," Campbell said.
"I really noticed the pain level was pretty
much unacceptable when I had to brace myself against the waves," Campbell said.
"If I had maybe stayed in Sayward for a week, it might have healed up some.
But disappointment eased when his wife,
Kathy, arrived in Sayward with their 1-year-old son.
"Micah was just ecstatic. They got there
about 11 p.m., and he had been sleeping in the car. But he woke up when they
came inside," said Campbell. "He was just giddy for about an hour. You could
tell ‘Yeah, he missed me.' That was the nicest reception I could have gotten."
More info: thenewstribune.com
Ken Campbell - Photo: Dred Perine/The News Tribune File
A couple of weeks ago we talked about Ken
Campbell's quest to become the first person to circumnavigate Vancouver Island
during the winter.
That came to a halt when he tore his left rotator
cuff in the Johnstone Strait north of Sayward.
"It was tough in the sense that I had been
planning for it for a year - budgeting the time, the money, the time off. In
that sense it was a very hard decision to make," Campbell said.
"I really noticed the pain level was pretty
much unacceptable when I had to brace myself against the waves," Campbell said.
"If I had maybe stayed in Sayward for a week, it might have healed up some.
But disappointment eased when his wife,
Kathy, arrived in Sayward with their 1-year-old son.
"Micah was just ecstatic. They got there
about 11 p.m., and he had been sleeping in the car. But he woke up when they
came inside," said Campbell. "He was just giddy for about an hour. You could
tell ‘Yeah, he missed me.' That was the nicest reception I could have gotten."
More info: thenewstribune.com
David H. Johnston
