After months of planning, I’m finally on my way to Croatia! Last year I managed to hit silver medallion status with Delta, which means I get two free 50-pound checked bags on international trips. I took full advantage of that, and my two bags each weighed in at just under 50 pounds. (That doesn’t include …
Because some of my colleagues have been asking, I thought I’d explain in more detail what I’m doing for my voice and text communication while I’m in Croatia. I’m using a combination of Google Voice (a service which gives you a US-based phone number that can receive voice calls and text messages and forward them …
I’ve been trying to sort out the best options for communicating with people while I’m away. It doesn’t make sense for me to pay AT&T’s non-trivial cost for phone and data while overseas, especially since I can get a pay-as-you-go phone+data plan inexpensively in Dubrovnik, but my iPhone5 is new and thus locked to AT&T. …