I popped into a Voda store and found out that calls with international roaming are $4.80 a minute, data is a whopping $30 a meg and texts are 80 cents. As I'm heading to the UK after the States, I'll be getting a UK sim when I get there, but while I am in the US, I wondered if I should just grin and bare it or go with a US sim.
I probably would only want to send a few texts, make the odd call but it would be very handy to be able to check my gmail while on the go and maybe the odd travel website. $30 a meg is prohibitive!

Any and all advice appreciated!
TIA
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