Staying in touch while backpacking

[ally883]

Going on a backpacking trip overseas in a couple of months and need some way to stay in touch with family/friends back home in the US. Any suggestions? Prefer to use text messaging so any known cheap text messaging services would be helpful! thanks!!!

[TravelLover564]

Have you heard much about Chime? You get a US phone number to text from your mobile or computer. Its free, for now atleast, and you can text to friends in the US without racking up international charges cuz your using a US phone number. You sign up at www.chimenow.com/int and they set up your account for you. Hope that helps

[ally883]

I registered for chime and just got my number and password. Seems to work great! didn't realize you could also integrate facebook and myspace!!!!!! cool find travellover564