Traveling internationally is difficult enough without worrying about your phone.

The best free option for this isGoogle Maps.

Just see to it you know how toread that map and get around.

Just head to Google Voice’s controls pageand choose the “Add another phone” option.

slide in your phone and set up voicemail forwarding.

If you don’t want to set up a permanent forward, you canset up a temporary one.

Sometimes they won’t.

On Android, head into configs > Data Usage and flip the switch to off.

On iOS, head into options > Cellular and disable “Cellular Data.”

This restricts all your data transfers to Wi-Fi so you don’t accidentally use data roaming.

you’re free to also turn off “Data Roaming” to verify nothing else gets through.

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