Dad's who travel...a lot

For six (almost 7) years I have been working as a consultant for an awesome company, Synecticsworld, and it at times requires me to be on the road 75% of the time and sometimes internationally which means no return trips for 2-4 weeks. I wanted to reach out to other dad's who travel and see how they help the kids (and the wife) cope with being away so much.

What I have done in the past:

• Send postcards from every new city I visit (lost it's appeal to the kids)
• Bring home trinkets, hats, t-shirts (gets expensive)
• skype and more skype (internationally works great)
• The piece de la resistance...I had a great client fly my family out to Australia for 4 weeks last summer instead of me doing 2 additional roundtrips (now my kids think you fly business class everywhere)

I was hoping to hear from you dads out there for new ways to keep the peace at home, still be a dad and keep everyone happy...