Staying In Touch On The Road

By Jenny Ferguson
[Travel]
What lost art will make your loved ones at home feel special?  Jenny Ferguson shares the best ways to communicate when travelling.
When we head out on vacation we sometimes forget those we leave behind for a week or two.  When we decide we’re hitting the open road for a few weeks or more, it’s super important to keep in touch with your friends and family back home.  Even though you’re on holiday and hopefully too preoccupied to worry about home, your friends and family are missing you.  Here are several great ways to keep in touch while on the road!

The Classic Postcard

It’s a classic touch when you head out to explore the world to drop a postcard or two in the mail for your loved ones back home.  At any tourist destination, there will be a myriad of postcards to choose from.  While there isn’t much room on the back of a postcard, it’s a quick and easy way to say that while you’re having a ball in Buenos Aires, you’re still thinking about your friends, co-workers and family.

The postcard can be impersonal, so it’s important to think before you drop one of these in the mailbox:  “Hi honey.  Having lots of fun in the sun.  Love, your girlfriend whom you haven’t spoken to in a few weeks.”

The Letter Revival

When you want to surprise a loved one while you’re on vacation, send them a handwritten letter through the mail.  Letters are a lost art since the utter takeover of email, but they are a great way to keep in touch on vacation.  You can write a letter while you’re sitting on the train waiting to get to your next destination or when you have a moment or two before catching some shut-eye.  Share your thoughts, talk about your day and be sure to convey a little of the flavour of your vacation in your writing.

Letters are mementos in themselves and, since email is so much easier and much more common, a letter really says that you care even if you’re far, far away!
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