Visiting the dead

Is it proper to say you went to visit someone when you go to their grave? I went to the cemetery to visit Darrell today; someone mentioned him yesterday, and I realized I haven't been down to see him in a while. As I was thinking about it I was thinking that it is kind of odd to say that I went to see Darrell, because I couldn't really "see" him. And really, he is as much with me anywhere I am as he is when I go stand beside where he is buried. So is that really the right thing to say?