Hi Vietnam Freedom Tour,

I, too, found Phil Gleeson's comments disturbing.  I regret that his brief 2-day visit did not afford him the opportunity to really get to know our retreat or the people who live and work here. There are so few treasures left in the world & Malapacao Island Retreat is one of them. I've spent 13 dedicating years of my life working to build a model for future sustainable tourism.  With an extremely strong & determined will, not to mention being alone with nearly no capital, I've created an atmosphere here that I hope will attract the kind of people who will tread as lightly as possible on our environment. I feel that we live in a small window of time where we have a chance to create an eco-sensitive presence before it is all lost (as it will be eventually) to less considerate development.