We got Don a fancy (and expensive!*) cell phone just for his PCT thru-hike - the LG enV 2 in Maroon (so pretty!). It has a QWERTY keyboard and email, so we thought he could use it to update his journal.
The plan: The Postholer journal is updateable via email, so Don would write his journal entry each day and save it as an email draft to be sent whenever he got Internet connectivity.
The reality: It seems like you can only access the email program when you have Internet connectivity. We haven't found a way to save a draft without Internet access! So Don's been condensing his thoughts into 160-character-limited text messages, and I have to attempt to reassemble them into journal entries. PITA! Especially if a text message gets lost, like it did the other day...
Another possibility that we haven't tried yet is for Don to write and save a note to his phone, then attach that note to an email for me to post. Ideas for more efficient work-arounds are more than welcome!
On the bright side, I've really been enjoying getting unexpected text messages from him! He just sent me a few, and I plan to post the pertinent info to his journal. The only drawback to all this texting is that I'm now finding myself thinking in terms of 160-character limits. Now I know why those stupid acronyms and abbreviations are so widely used.
*If you choose to inflict a 2-year contract upon yourself, the phone is $50 after rebate. However, if you choose contractual freedom, then you get to pay a whopping $280 before tax. Ouch. But when you consider the monthly plan cost of $55, it works out something like this:
$50 phone + 24 months @ $55 = $1370
$280 phone + 5 months @ $55 = $555
I don't know which you'd choose, but month-to-month made more sense for us.
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