Traveling is cool while you’re walking the ancient grounds of Angkor Wat with the dudes from the hostel, or buying noodles from the side of a truck with your host family in Tokyo, but how to maintain those relationships once you’re home and back at your desk, trolling the internet for a way to speed the clock ahead 15 minutes?

The folks at Please Visit Me have come up with yet another way to remind you that you’d rather be traveling, a way for you to both nurture relationships with folks in foreign lands and let them know that you’re thinking of them without the pesky obligation of having to take an interest in their lives or let them know what you’re up to. Just enter their name and email address, their closest airport and then that same info for yourself and they’ll receive an email with the cheapest flights between those cities.

With plane fares nose-diving, this is the perfect time to remind your buddy in New Orleans that the west coast is beautiful this time of year, and Please Visit Me generates a short, sweet email that lets them know that you can get here from there for as little as $196.

It’s a fast, easy way to distract yourself from your dwindling vacation days and hold out some hope that someone from far far away will bring tales of adventure in an exotic accent. And in the time it took you to read this, wishing that someone would come by just to break up your day, you could have invited four people to visit you.

Photo by (The Shane H, Flickr)