wanderlust
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He draws on the photographer’s diaries and autobiography to portray his subject as a gentle-souled adventurer, driven into a peripatetic life by wanderlust and financial necessity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
It encouraged wanderlust as Sal and Dean traveled across the country, indulging in their freedoms and desires with almost reckless abandon.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
That, of course, led to the travel show — also the previous travel shows had shown me that I had a real wanderlust.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025
Watts's main advice for readers with a similar wanderlust is to consider travelling further afield.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025
Zeitoun had gone on to work on ships without Ahmad, too, seeing most of the world in a ten-year period of wanderlust that eventually brought him to New Orleans and to his life with Kathy.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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