If you haven't got the funds to go around to all these places all over the map, are you working now?
if not, then get a cheap car and a sleeping bag, and drive around to all the places, you've got time, it's the only thing you do have...
drive in one direction until you get to the end of the road, stopping at every place along the way, and on the way back stop again, then when you get home, call them up and say hello and talk with them again.