[pct-l] phone cards

[kdpo@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ken Powers)]

We use this phone card on the trail and like it. We have even turned off
long distance service on our home phone and use this instead. One slight
glitch - you cannot recharge the phone card from a pay phone. We either have
a trusted friend recharge the card or ask a retail place if we can use their
phone to call an 800 number. Most will let us use the phone, but not all.
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Turner" <hkrbob@adelphia.net>
To: "Jen Schaeffer" <sprout896@hotmail.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] phone cards


> One of the best buys for phone cards is from Costco.  575 minutes costs
> about 3 cents a minutes $19.95.  Any payphone surcharge (usually about 75
> cents) is subtracted from the minutes you have on the card.  I used one
when
> I traveled a lot last year.  You can recharge teh card with a credit card
at
> the same rate.  The only drawback it it is a lot of numbers to punch in
and
> hard to see in the dim light of a nighttime phone booth.
>
> Bob
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jen Schaeffer" <sprout896@hotmail.com>
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:45 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] phone cards
>
>
> > Hello all -
> >
> > Anybody have a favorite way of staying in touch with home while
> thru-hiking?
> > I'm wondering if folks have used phone cards or collect calling and
which
> > worked better.
> >
> > You can email offline if you'd like.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > sprout
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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