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Old Sep 6, 2023 | 6:23 am
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Originally Posted by ahopkins767 (Post # 77)
Were you on the Skyjet flights back then or a charter? Did you stay in Camp John Hay (which used to be the US military HQ and governorship seat from the American Colonial days).
We flew MNL-BAG (according to my wife) on a small propeller plane with a capacity of about 24 pax, but it was not a charter. I don't think it was connected with PAL. My wife and I stayed downtown, if not at the ​​​​Casa Vallejo, then somewhere almost as old and about the same size (24 rooms).

I did hike through the pine forest at Camp John Hay. As a naval officer who stopped at Subic Bay enroute to and from the Indian Ocean, the CH-46 helicopter pilots always flew up to Baguio, spoke highly of it, and I was aware of the Summer Capital history under Governor Taft, so I wanted to visit. I did buy the obligatory bottle of strawberry wine, and need not do that again. I only saw the Philippine Military Academy from a distance.
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