Diann,
Great advice! Recently I tried something a bit similar, in that I set up some e-mails to my wife ahead of my recent trip. But in these I set them up to be able to send her flower images in my e-mails from each of the four countries I would be in, but I left almost all of the messages to be written while I would be there. Although the flowers didn't transmit at all, unlike at home, what little I typed earlier did, along with the love letters I composed while on the road.