Our friends who avoid traveling do. Family and friends would undoubtedly fit on their list, too. I don't often have tears in my eyes. Start the car. Maybe if our trips were more often this ambitious, maybe if we traveled more often in winter, we'd be more conscious of the cost of tearing ourselves away.
Homer leaves motivation to the gods or to honor.
Odysseus never confides that he's dying to catch a glimpse of a Cyclops or that he's always longed to visit Calypso's Island. The angry god Poseidon simply blows him in those directions. Nah, I want to say, the reason we travel is mostly to see things. We move because we want to see. I like this argument for travel.