Anakin snorts as he accepts the tool, "I'm looking to go back to the war....but I guess you could say home, too. There are people counting on me." His expression softens as he thinks about his own little 'family', and Padme in particular, "they're probably wondering what the hell I've gotten myself into this time. "

Maybe he says it lightly enough to sound like a joke but of course it's not really. At least he knows how he'd react if it was Obi-Wan in his position. And if he couldn't at least get his ship's communications array working again, he has no idea how he'd even start to let them know how to find him.

Obi-Wan would tell him to trust the Force he expects.