"Free and Stressed"
I agree; it's hard to have a routine while traveling. It is stressful.
And I just wanted to go home, after traveling around for 6 months (25,000 miles). It was too much in 6 months..

It's nice to have a home base. After, I just wanted to buy a house, and plant a garden, make real life for myself, be a member of a community.

After 6 months, I was tired, stressed and sick. I needed to rest. I was lucky I didn't catch malaria probably.

I liked at that time, to travel alone. I enjoyed the autonomy. Nobody else to have to agree with; and traveling alone, I met so many new people.

That is the beauty of traveling alone. But it gets lonely too. For the next 10 years, I only wanted to take vacations here and there; globe trotting no longer carried the glamor I had once attached to it.

That said, I can see living in different places for a long while, instead of having a home base. That makes more sense to me as well, and then there is routine, and a sense of belonging to a community.