Word: wanderluster
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...suffer from wanderlust is to be in the thrall of travel, to have an itch to get out and see the world. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” wrote a brooding Robert Louis Stevenson in “Cheylard and Luc.” “I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move...
...America today, William Langewiesche is one of the few heirs of the solitary wanderlust tradition. He is also the best, fashioning himself as a modern day Hemingway-cum-Indiana Jones. Perusing short biographies of him, I find they do not mention his stint at Stanford as an undergraduate, as if it were too common to emphasize...
...kind of feeling, not of dissatisfaction, but a superabundance of energy that didn’t have an outlet in the way I was living,” said Hirsch. “The getting of itchy feet, the need for adventure, the wanderlust, having new experiences: that is what I responded to.” Hirsch’s commitment to the film went further than adventure travel, however: in order to accurately depict McCandless’s emaciated state by the end of the film, he adhered to an extremely strict diet, losing 40 pounds...
...been reading Beat literature, so I went to Haight-Ashbury instead of going to Europe to study with some German composer. I went the opposite direction.” It would be a time of immense creative growth for Adams. “I spent my twenties in wanderlust being ill defined. I didn’t write my first mature piece until my thirties,” he recalls. ‘APPALLING’ NEW TRENDSWith two children in college, Adams ruminates on the current trend of graduating students going into business. “I think it?...
...Three other boys stood out. Neil had irrepressible high spirits and a budding wanderlust. If he couldn't be an astronaut, he said, "I'm going to take people to the country, and sometimes to the seaside." Bruce, an angelic blond boy with a solemn demeanor, came from a well-to-do family but, having been exiled to a boarding school in Surrey, radiated loneliness and idealism. "My heart's desire," he said soulfully, "is to see my daddy." His father was in Rhodesia, which may have had something to do with his stated ambition to go to Africa...