I've been out in those parts before. It's very hard to explain the reality of it to people who've never experienced it. My wife came with, she's from South Kore

I've been out in those parts before. It's very hard to explain the reality of it to people who've never experienced it. My wife came with, she's from South Korea and I told her not to expect her phone or yelp or anything to work there. She didn't believe me and fortunately we had done a little bit of planning ahead of time otherwise we wouldn't have even been able to find a place to eat! But the notion of being so remote that your mobile phone service won't work was hard for her to understand, "we're in America, why wouldn't it work?" I think if people consider it more like a remote part of Central Asia it might form an easier image of what it's like there. Still, it's also a stunningly beautiful part of the U.S.