I read Brett Arends’ WSJ column today with interest: A Tip for Overseas Travelers– Leave your Cell Phone at Home.

Anyone traveling abroad this summer must be reeling from shock. Places like Europe were expensive even in the old days. And that was before the Almighty Dollar had become the Yankee Peso.

But your biggest sticker shock may not come until you get home and open your cellphone bill.

How true. When Matt and I went to Mexico in February, we lost our car keys.

Turns out they were cradled in one of those Mexican hammocks, but it wasn’t until I spoke in broken English to a very helpful, patient guy in the Hertz-Tulum location several times for a total of about an hour that we realized that.

We knew it was going to cost a pretty penny for those international charges and my cell-savvy husband lamented that we didn’t buy a local SIM card like we did when in Italy a few years back.

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