ME/NA Travels

[sereia 0]

i leave march 22nd! bought my ticket today! woohooooooooo

[~Jackie~ 30]

Travel countdowns:

Catherine Feb 24

J-mag Feb 24

deemabrouk Feb 24

Limah March 8

Abdounjen March 22

doodle July 20

Planning a trip:

Prena

Melly

Currently traveling:

Janine

Anyone else?

J

Edited February 20, 2007 by jmagayreh

[wildroze22 0]

Travel countdowns:

Catherine Feb 24

J-mag Feb 24

deemabrouk Feb 24

Limah March 8

Abdounjen March 22

doodle July 20

Planning a trip:

Prena

Melly

Currently traveling:

Janine

Anyone else?

J

i leave the end of march also!!!!

[~Jackie~ 30]

Travel countdowns:

Catherine Feb 24

J-mag Feb 24

deemabrouk Feb 24

Limah March 8

Abdounjen March 22

wildroze22 end of March

doodle July 20

Planning a trip:

Prena

Melly

Currently traveling:

Janine

[amal 4]

still wishing i could go with you j-mag....we are planning but its not going to be until sometime in september of 2008

[mybackpages 0]

don't they charge a fee to use it outside the usa? kind of like cell phones?

omigosh i have no idea but the thought of using my cellphone overseas makes my insides cringe now!!!! I just got a SECOND bill from cingular for yet ANOTHER $500!!!! I thought I had only spent $500 on phonecalls but since half my trip was in Dec and the other half in Jan it was really a total of $1,000!!!!! I really need to devise a better plan for the next time I'm there.

What do you all do as far as keeping in touch with everyone back home while you're overseas?

I have an unlocked quadband phone. It will work in any country and with any local company's SIM card. Then when my SIM card is in the phone, I can receive calls or make calls (though at the international rate for me).

[sereia 0]

i have the same kind of phone. its great you can buy SIM cards in any country you go and switch them out.

[mybackpages 0]

i have the same kind of phone. its great you can buy SIM cards in any country you go and switch them out.

Just wanted to add, I bought my phone from T-mobile, but had to ask specificlly for an unlocked phone. The shop didn't have one in my model so he ordered it and it was in by the end of the same day

[sereia 0]

i had a phone that was locked from t-mobile, but you can ask them to unlock it. they email you a code and you do a few steps on your phone, and its unlocked! i'm not sure all phones are this way through t-mobile but that is the process i did so i could buy sim cards in other countries.

[cbd2cai 0]

I could get my t-mobile phone unlocked but it wasn't so easy to do this awhile back . . . that's why I took my older phone to Egypt . . . I left it there anyway for the relatives to use in case they needed one.

Of course, now I am thinking of upgrading phones again . . . it has been 2 years since the last one, hehe, sooooooooooooooooo, I'll have to check out getting it unlocked when I get the new one.

[Together4ever 1]

Travel countdowns:

Catherine Feb 24

J-mag Feb 24

deemabrouk Feb 24

Limah March 8

Abdounjen March 22

doodle July 20

Planning a trip:

Prena

Melly

Currently traveling:

Janine

Anyone else?

J

*Raises her hand to be added to the "I Am Staying At Home Cuz I'm Broke" list*

[ya falaha! 0]

LOL...me too. Add me to the broke azz non-traveling list.

[lion_lioness 0]

don't worry you can add me to the broke list after this visit....I'm holding out on buying the tickets (my son is coming along for the first time) until we get an interview date. If it's way off like a year or more, we're going to wait and go in september. if it's sometime 2007 we'll go.

will keep yall posted.

[~Jackie~ 30]

3 more sleeps til we leave! Are you ready Catherine? Deemabrouk?

We have just a few things still to buy. We have assigned seats already. We are an A & B and alone in our row/section. That's good cuz I don't want to nap and wake with my head on a strangers shoulder!

Jackie

[cbd2cai 0]

3 more sleeps til we leave! Are you ready Catherine? Deemabrouk?

We have just a few things still to buy. We have assigned seats already. We are an A & B and alone in our row/section. That's good cuz I don't want to nap and wake with my head on a strangers shoulder!

Jackie

I have assigned seats but i am in the back of the plane . . . mid-section mostly and i like aisle seats!! just as long as the crying baby section isn't right behind me, i'll be ok, hehe!! But I've gone the whole way with a crying baby, so it could be worse.

Finished my shopping. . . now to shove it all into the suitcases. Oh, and the requests to take stuff that hasn't been bought/delivered yet . . . . hope i can squeeze it in! AND I hope i got the weight balanced . . . 50 lbs per bag, 2 bag limit . . . i hate having to shift things around when i get to the airport!!! worse yet, i hate to pay the overweight fees!!!