wanderlust

wanderlust \WON-der-luhst\, noun:
a strong desire to wander or travel
There are as many explanations for acute wanderlust as there are
Travelers who suffer from it. But common to them all is the desire to
break through the protective bubble that surrounds ordinary tourists
as they move from one homogenous, CNN-wired hotel to another.
-- Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post, 1998-12-27
Life in Ardmore suited him-the slow pace of it, the sweep of sea and
cliff, the roll of green hills that went shimmering toward shadowed
mountains. The wanderlust that the Gallaghers were famed for had
skipped over him, and Shawn was well rooted in Ardmore's sandy soil.
-- Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon, 2000-08-13
by 1902, from German Wanderlust, literally "desire for wandering"