Gathering up my wits and gear for a 4 week journey to Montana, via Highway 89, of course. Second trip to Montana in 10 days, bad luck on the timing, but this one will cover the same 1200 miles in 28 days rather than 5. R has fishing gear and his computer. I have two new 8 GB compact flash chips thanks to the special at Strobist. We are good to go.
I also have a new cell phone. In addition to the TMobile contract that I labor under for another 18 months. We won't go into why I can't get a TMobile signal from my kitchen, and have to stand on my porch to use my phone. Or how the awful customer service at Cingular drove me to TMobile. Instead, let's discuss why I needed a second phone from Verizon. There just isn't any GSM signal out there, "there" being where I travel on my project. Not at the rim of the Grand Canyon. None for miles between Page and Flagstaff. I think they just got some in Sanpete County. I love this story about "the" guy in Montana with an IPhone, using Chinook Wireless to provide roaming on an AT&T phone number with a Los Angeles area code. No AT&T store in Montana, no Apple store either.
I'm not even a chatty phone person, and now I have 2 cell phone numbers. Not to mention two chargers... I'll keep the GSM phone for international travel, and use the Verizon line out on the Highway 89. But no IPhone for me until I can use it wherever I roam.
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Ah but you have to get an IPhone! It is the most wonderful gadget I've ever owned. You don't access the internet, it IS the internet. And a decent phone too -- and an IPod! Great screen for your photos Ann --- true AT&T may not be the best in the wilds, but it's a small price to pay to own the best game-changing invention ever! It's way too cool to pass on!
Posted by Tracy Boatright | July 24, 2007 11:47 PM
Posted on July 24, 2007 23:47