[ProtectOurFreedom]

Never have - do not now - never will, text.

If we didn't have texting / iMessaging, we'd never hear from our kids. We keep in touch with them all over the country every day that way. They hardly ever open their email programs, so those can go unread / unanswered for days.

It's real easy to take photos on the phone when my wife and I travel and send them to the kids and other relatives via text. It sure beats buying a postcard, writing it out, finding a stamp, and putting it in a mailbox.

Five years ago on a birthday trip, we all climbed to the top of Mount Washburn in Yellowstone. The kids were texting out their adventure from the top of the mountain. My wife and I sent texts and photos a few days ago from a long hike in the Sawtooths in Idaho. Shot this on my Olympus camera, wifi'd it to my phone, and sent it out.

[TalonDJ]

If you are still getting service you aren’t far enough out there :D Where we go we are often many miles from any coverage.

[Carriage Hill]

Nice pic.
I understand the whys and wherefores of it, but there are at least 5-20% of the population who spend their waking hours, with faces buried in a phone, texting, and can’t functionally form a simple 3-5-7-10 word sentence, give directions, safely drive a car, fill out a paper form, function normally, without that crutch and go thru mental withdrawl without it.

They’re going to be the ‘zombies’ after the EMP hits.

When I think about that, I fondly remember letters, stamps, zipcodes and mailboxes.

[nickcarraway]

I’m surprised you got service. One of the nice things about being out there is no calls. But occasionally you get surprise service somewhere. I usually only take the phone to track how many miles I have gone.