I don't think I know anyone personally in my diverse history who travel for more than 3-4 months at a time.
And it doesn't sound like you "traveled" for weeks on end. You relocated to another place, had a permanent home base there, and then traveled on weekends.
What counts as "travel"? If you move to a foreign land, rent an apartment, take side trips, then move to a new place a month later, repeat, is that travel, or not? Do you have to be staying in a different place each night for it to count as travel? When you move the goal posts each post it's hard to refute what you're saying though.
A few blogs off the top of my head where they traveled nonstop for months or years: drivenachodrive, sprinterlife, bumfuzzle, gocurrycracker, lifenomadic, lifeafterliquidity, etc. etc. There are many many more if you bother to look.
I also find it a little insulting that you presume to know what other people want more than they do, and claim all women will get over travel after a few weeks. This is not always the case, in my experience.
Yes, the vast majority don't. But the vast majority never travel at all. It would be ridiculous for someone who doesn't know many travelers to claim though "You're a woman. In my experience, women don't travel. So don't bother."
Many people don't travel. Some who do miss home. Some who do love to travel, and keep doing it. Clearly, as
you mentioned, Australians often will travel for a year. Americans don't as much. Do you think that's because they like travel less, or because it's just not as much a part of the culture or an expected thing?
Many people don't early retire, but I wouldn't claim "In my experience, people don't retire early, and those who do get bored and go back after a few weeks, so you'll probably get bored if you ER" -- that would be quite presumptuous and flat out wrong.
Clearly you have some experiences traveling, but not much experience with people who do lots of travel. Some of us do have experience with people who travel for long periods of time. Neither experience is right or wrong, but to claim you know how someone else will feel based on your experience is silly.
:)