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Comment: since I wrote this I have realised that community is important to being human. Community, whether in the same geographical location, or virtual, or family or whatever, builds us as we build it, investing our time and passion in those people and ideas we choose to bring close to us. Oh, but distance is important too. I wonder. I make my home where my friends are (or my friends where my home is?) so my location and my community seem very closely linked. But as I travel, I leave my friends. It's natural to move on, in both friendship, and in place, as we change. But I think that friendship is less bound to sharing physical spaces, than it is to maintaining a connection accross metaphyisical distance. A true connection can't be broken by distance????? But allowing and encouraging a friendship to grow requires more than just connection. It needs sharing common experiences, learning and understanding together. Much harder to share when not in each other's presences. Without seeing my friends' joy, sorrow, experience on their faces, it is harder to grok them. The challenge for the digital nomad is to learn to love via long distance, and nurture friendship.