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Post by beirutvet on Feb 7, 2017 21:45:25 GMT 8
T2
Shocked and dismayed over these turn of events. Please give updates when you can. Our thoughts and prayers are with you!
I cannot even imagine the disappointment (that word is not strong enough) at planning a trip like that to only have it come crashing down around you. I was so looking forward to hearing about your exploits there, as I am sure we all were, but your health comes first. Live to fight ( visit Corregidor) another day, as the saying goes.
How long are you in the Philippines? Will you be able to reschedule and return to The Rock on this trip?
Please keep us posted on your condition.
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Post by T2 on Feb 9, 2017 8:45:56 GMT 8
Thank you beirutvet for your thoughts and concerns. I bounced back fairly quickly, all the numbness left both my hands and feet by the end of the ferry ride to Manila. The next day slept most of it at Sofitel. My vacation plans are progressive so hotels, flights and the like are all booked in sequence. There was not enough of a window to rebook this and it took 2 days to fully recover. My admiration for all those soldiers, and high ranking officers is incredibly high to say the least. There was no A C to get in and regroup in those days......wow definitely the greatest generation! My advice to anyone reading this was to get that break in your day. The last time I was on Corregidor I did just that by staying at the Inn and going on walkabouts with food and water and my Barmah, it all went so well and I would walk for miles. It did accomplish one little tidbit which I will put together when I get back home, in Hong Kong right now. Remember what MacArthur said in Australia....and I most certainly will. Thank you very much for your concern.
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Post by Registrar on Feb 9, 2017 14:13:31 GMT 8
T2,
I was most concerned to hear of your heatstroke there. I know how much getting there and tracing Al's footsteps meant to you.
( I tend to punctuate my days there with cold beer.)
I am also disturbed that Corregidor has gone backwards as far as the welfare of visitors there is concerned. You are not the first to suffer.
The board's old friend (Phantom, a.k.a. Tom Aring), a good and very dear friend to me, was moved out of the Inn on one occasion (when he was already occupying his confirmed room!) because the management had booked the entire Inn to some other affair. It mattered not a whit to them that he'd been booked there for some time!) Tom was put into the beach house, which was not airconditioned. Unable to cool down (as he normally did in his airconditioned room at the Inn) he went into a diabetic coma, and was found close to death on the floor of the house. He would have died had Ron Benadero not looked in to see how he was. Has Sun Cruises learned from this?
There's enough dangers on Corregidor already, without corporations making it worse.
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Post by beirutvet on Feb 9, 2017 21:41:55 GMT 8
T2
So glad to hear you are doing better.
You seem to have a good attitude about it. I think if I had planned 3 days on Corregidor and it got derailed in the first hours, I would be in need of serious therapy for the foreseeable future,,,, or at least till I could reschedule.
Are you back to 100%?
Registrar
I was not aware of the episode you related about Phantom. Distressing to say the least. Is there any way to ensure that your reservations there are honored?
(Registrar answers: How can one predict the Philippines, even though we know what the odds are. I once heard a fellow (it might even have been me) exclaim "The Philippines is the place where good planning goes to die!" but even that's a bit unfair. Your question does deal in the future, and my crystal ball is on the blink. These episodes do force me to recall, maybe it was 2001 or 2002, when the hotel moved four (or was it five) of us from our nice, comfy rooms down to the barracks-like hostel behind MacArthur's Cafe. One of us was Al McGrew, WWII Defender/Prisoner of War. We had a good time together, laughing a lot, making the best of sharing the barracks, the aircon there worked fine, but to get moved from booked rooms is, as we say, "a bit rich." So, I don't think they have learned, goodness gracious me, NO! )
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Post by JohnEakin on Feb 10, 2017 10:42:03 GMT 8
T2, I think everyone on this forum shares your disappointment and we're glad you're on the mend. Heat illnesses are nothing to mess with and have floored many good men.
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Post by T2 on Feb 11, 2017 18:33:54 GMT 8
Thank you, all of you once again. I did recognize the symptoms coming on as I do live in Bermuda where the heat can get you there as well. As soon as I felt it coming on I started making tracks to get it sorted. I am running at 100% again. I am really really miffed that a booked client would be shifted out of their paid room into a lesser accommodation, that is absolutely unacceptable behavior! My situation was a known fact that I was going to be camping, I did have a reservation at the Corregidor Inn in the beginning but they informed me the renovations were nowhere near finished. I am an extremely positive person and can roll with the punches that get thrown my way any day of the week and can make light of a bad situation. I am also a believer in "things happen for a reason" this reason will be unknown I am sure of it but something could have happened much worse I think, so fate removed me from the island. This one got away from me but I cannot wait to get back there again and pick up where I left off! My total respect and admiration for Al McGrew and Spencer Bever will never end...
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Post by beirutvet on Feb 12, 2017 21:13:07 GMT 8
Registrar
You are correct, how can you predict what happens in the Philippines? What was I thinking? Logic and the rule of law for sure take a back seat. I was probably just thinking with my western world hat on.
That is good that you were able to make the best of your situation but Phantoms could have ended in tragedy. But I guess in their defense, how could you have predicted what happened to him as well.
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Post by T2 on Mar 3, 2017 20:27:25 GMT 8
The thought process has begun...returning in January! Do you think the Corregidor in will be ready by then?
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Post by beirutvet on Mar 3, 2017 21:36:35 GMT 8
There you go, T2. That's the spirit! Don't let it get you down, just book another trip.
The first time I went was in January of 2011. Good weather, no rainy season.
In another thread Karl is guesstimating that they will not be done until November of this year, so you should be OK. In fact you will be in a good position to be one of the first to rate the new accommodations. You have stayed there before, correct?
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Post by T2 on Mar 28, 2017 9:00:36 GMT 8
Thank you beirutvet for the encouraging words. Yes I have stayed there several times now. Funny you mention November....I have moved my walkabout to end of November....ahhhh the smell of fresh paint!
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