The Immersive Vehicles mod family provides for the creation of aircraft and cars to get you between your various needed locations.
A mail system, framed blocks, and Paladin's furniture allow for your homes to feel like home, and for you to keep in touch with your friends on a server.
Cameras and custom music discs all you to truely move in to your virtual world, create shared experiences with your fiends, as well as have the right soundtrack for do so.