Travel often stimulates... it drives me, challenges me and gives me a series of unexpected challenges to handle, to decide in real-time. Intense living, compressed into a short time. Coming home is supportive and loving and reintegrative... but I'm often fidgetly and restless for the first week or two afterwards. It lacks the edge of prolonged travel. Or of running big projects. At some level, I could easily take a few days' breather at home, rest a bit, spend time with loved ones, then happily head out again.

Reading this all these years later, I'm hearing Elton John's "Rocket Man" in my head. :^) Fits you well in multiple ways.