wanderlust
\ WON-der-luhst \ , noun;
1.a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
Quotes:
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust .
-- Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, The Master and Margarita , 1967
A person susceptible to " wanderlust " is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
-- Forward by Pico Iyer, "Why We Travel," Wanderlust , 2000
Origin:
Wanderlust is a German loanword that translates literally to "wander desire." It entered English in the early 1900s.
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