[pct-l] Detaching

[Jackie McDonnell]

Pay phones are QUICKLY disappearing, as are phones in motel rooms.  Pretty
much everyone has a cell phone now-a-dayz, and it's simply not economically
feasible for businesses to incur the expense of pay phones and motel room
phones.

Because of that, my advice would be to take your cell phone with you.  It's
your choice to keep it packed away (or not) while you are on the trail.
 Your personal preference could be to only use your cell phone while in
town.  To each his own.

In fact, due to the removal of pay phones and motel room phones, we no
longer list pay phones or motel room phones as town features in  the
Handbook.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Diarmaid Harmon <irishharmon at comcast.net>wrote:

> As you have a shoe phone you won't have any problems. All joking aside the
> day's of the public pay phone are ending quickly. A case for carrying a
> phone (dumb or smart) is becoming more realistic. I carry my phone all the
> time usually off in my pack for use at trail towns.
>
> Irish.
>
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Greg Hummel <bighummel at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > In the early (ancient) days before cell phones, GPS, SAT phones, etc. we
> all went low tech communicating with our loved ones with post cards;
> simple, low cost, no batteries, direct but slow communication. My parents
> saved all of the ones I sent and they are now some of my most prized
> possessions.
> >
> > <<<
> > We are thinking of going lo-tech.  What are our options for communicating
> > to the outside world via phone or internet without the use of smart or
> > stupid phones?  ... library, payphones...etc.
> > <<<<<
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Greg Hummel
> > (Sent from my shoe phone)
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