Living Alaska, Cell Phones
Alaska is big. Alaska has towering mountains, rivers, volcanoes, glaciers, fiords, and ocean wide expanses. When you move here or visit you will lose cell phone service at some point in time. To get here you will pass through or over Canada. If you do not have international service, you will not have a phone for a couple of hours to a couple of days. I work on the ferry system; I lose service for 34 hours as we pass through Canadian waters. I do not mind so much because when we pass back into US territory my phone beeps, chirps, chimes, and dings with all my backlogged love. Ok, it is junk mail, but I like to think of it as love letters.
There are carriers that have international service. I am not writing an indorsement or an advertisement for any one carrier but the best one is the carrier that starts with an A and ends with a T. But since I do not currently use this service, I miss my international call availability. So far it has not killed me, but inconvenience yes. I do not know if hearing beep, beep, chirp, chirp, ding, ding, ding, outweighs the loss of phone service for 34 hours as we cruise through Canadian waters, but I do get a kick out of it. It is like an alarm clock or a range finder telling you are home.
When I am in town, I lose service when I go ride my bicycle. I just travel up and down the main road, but I live in a mountainous town and just one bend in…
