Managed to score a 20% off deal on a brand new Garmin (not Delorme) inReach Explorer + last week for my upcoming trip Alaska! I wish i could say more about it other than i love the orange color.

Right now i'm stuck trying to activate the darn thing.
When you first turn it on you have to pick the language. Then it tells you to go to Garmin's site and register it. But this is where things fall apart. As your registering it, you get to a section about the service plans. Well, i don't want a service plan yet because i don't need the SOS or texting feature just yet. But there's no option around this...they want you to pick a plan. So i aborted this, but the device will not activate.

Since it was a holiday weekend no one was available at Garmin.
Hopefully i'll get ahold of them today. Curious if anyone knows the way around this?