This is why the Europeans got it right:
Wanderlust (Middle High German: wandern, to wander, and Lust, desire) is a German loanword. It is commonly defined as a strong desire to travel, or by having an itch to get out and see the world.[1] Some consider it to be a simple linguistic compound of wander and lust.
Usage: The word was first recorded into English dictionaries by 1902.[2] In German, the term Wanderlust sounds old-fashioned today. To retranslate the English Wanderlust in the sense of "love of travel", the expression Fernweh (composing of 'Fern'= 'far' and 'weh'= 'ache') is more appropriate.
Wanderlust in Fiction: Wanderlust is used in the series of books Dragonlance to describe a genetic process that a race called "Kender" (Which are akin to wood elves or hobbits) go through, during which they are overpowered by an insatiable urge to leave behind any permanent location for residence and simply explore.
Vacilando is a Spanish term for the act of wandering when the experience of travel is more important than reaching the specific destination.
John Steinbeck (in Travels With Charley: In Search of America, 1962) wrote:
"In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction."
- derived from Wikipedia.com
My new AIM sn: wanderlustful
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