wanderlust

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The Word of the Day for February 13 is: 

wanderlust   \WAHN-der-lust\   noun
     : strong longing for or impulse towards wandering

Example sentence:
     Less than a year after Bob moved to New England, 
wanderlust set in again, and he decided to pack up his things 
and head out to the Southwest.

Did you know?
     "For my part," writes Robert Louis Stevenson in _Travels 
with a Donkey_, "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I 
travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Sounds 
like a case of wanderlust if we ever heard one. Those 
with "wanderlust" don't necessarily need to go anywhere in 
particular -- they just don't care to stay in one spot. The 
etymology of "wanderlust" is a very simple one that you can 
probably figure out yourself. "Wanderlust" is lust 
(or "desire") for wandering. The word comes from German, in 
which "wandern" means "to wander," and "Lust" means "desire."