to be a tad suspicious?

[tortoisehellOstrich]

DP has "gone hiking in a national park with a colleague for the weekend" after a conference. The national park is rather remote, and the accommodation apparently doesn't have wifi. So I accepted that there would be no contact from Friday morning until they returned to the airport Monday night.

Except Google's wondrous data-dribbling abilities have just informed me (via a GPS-driven automatic facebook update of the colleague) that the colleague returned to London on Friday.

I was already a bit about the lack of wifi meaning no contact because of mega-expensive overseas data download costs, since surely a computer geek and his colleague know how to stop their googlephones automatically syncing diaries etc when they turn the phone on to send a text?

Email and text haven't been answered. DP's phone is clearly in the USA.

i guess I should resist temptation to ring up the colleague and ask what the hell is going on?

i'm thinking he is back, and she's busy with the thumb screws asking him his recent movements. I dare say we'll hear tomorrow. I do hope it's not as bad as it looks...

Hope all is OK.

Bump. OP - hope all is OK

Bump. Hope everything is ok Tortoise.

Just checking in.... hope everything is ok!

Hope everything is fine.

Hugs hun etc

Let us know if you need us or these

Been following this thread and waiting for updates...Hope everything is okay...

Any news?

I have seen the OP posting on other threads, so I'm guessing the lack of update is a deliberate decision.

Scrap that, I have confused her with someone else

OP I hope you are ok, and that you have some answers!!

Hope you are ok Tortoise?

Yes, I also got that confusion Alibaba.

Grief, it's so worrying when there's a gap in the thread from the OP.

tortoisehellOstrich

I have an android phone
settings
wireless controls
mobile network

gives you two choices ON or OFF

if you want to be sophisticated there is also mobile network settings which has half a dozen sub-options allowing you turn turn different things off an on.

he is absolutely right to want to avoid background synching, but that is easily done.

but - if he is in a US National park then there will almost certainly be no phone coverage, except at the lodges. PLUS - as you know - anyway you need a dual band phone as the US works on different system from europe. So his phone could, very plausibly, be cut off from the world until he reaches wifi.

Google the park, and it will tell you whether or not the lodges have wi-fi.

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hope you are ok and getting this sorted

Hope you are ok.

Triband phones work in the US.

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hope this has worked out ok.

FYI, national parks in the US are generally VERY dangerous places to be alone, so aside from truth-realted fears, there is a very good reason to be worried for his safety if you think your DP's hiking partner is not with him.

Good hiking practice at national parks is to always have a buddy with you, and ALWAYS have someone, not in your party, aware of a detailed itinerary of where you will be at any given time. You would be well within reason to phone the park rangers if you know the person that your DP is supposed to be hiking with is not actually hiking with him (although this could result in some pretty extreme embarrasment for him if he is running around on you, as they will likely send out search parties and helicopters after him).

I know people who haved died on hiking excursions in US national parks. If your DP is not doing something suspicious, he has, at the very least, been VERY inconsiderate and dangerous.

really not sounding very good

Hope all is OK