The Voyage: Thank God for the iPhone

I begged my father-in-law to send me pictures and updates every day as they chug along on their epic voyage by sea and land from New York City to Nizza di Sicilia and back, and miraculously, he's doing it. He was extremely nervous about using his phone the wrong way overseas and racking up a monstrous cell phone bill but now I'm receiving daily text messages from him so apparently he believes he's safe.