Using GLOCALME for International Travel

A number of our traveling companions that we have met have requested that I do a write-up on how I use our little GlocalMe device to access the internet while traveling internationally.  This little posting will attempt to do that, but first let me give you a little background.  My wife and I have been extensively traveling internationally for the past 6 years.  We travel extensively by motorcycle in Europe and are frequently aboard cruise ships all over the world.  So for us, it was important to figure out how we could obtain international data access at a reasonable cost.  What I have found is that there are the following options: Use our cellphone carrier’s international data plan.   We are very long time Verizon subscribers and they offer us a $10 per day international access plan in selected countries (cheaper in Canada and Mexico).  This plan gives us access to our unlimited data plan, but over the course of, say, a 30 day trip, the cost would be $300 for the data access wh