nice written :-) I'm travelling since the beginning of this year and I'm not too much into writing messages with my friends back home. I appreciate less or more the small or bigger encounters with foreign people along our adventure. sometimes just for an hour other times a beginning of a true relationship. I try to focus more on the simple meetings with people in the analogous world. And when I walk trough the day with open eyes and an open heart I often be surprised in a positive way how precious those meetings can be.
with the people I really care about back home - I automatically write up and on simple messages - and because we have already a good fundament of relationship it doesn't need the hole explanation... sometimes only a hey, I need to talk to you/ hey, I think about you or hey, I need to know how are you doing...

cheers sue