James Joyce The Traveler

Never thought of him this way. More like an alchemist, staving off verbal poverty, the material kind too, until the thing is done. But here's Richard Ellman describing him as one, beginning the chapter 1904-1905,

'Poets,' Henri Michaux has written, 'love trips.' Joyce was a traveler by nature as well as necessity. When he had sufficiently complicated his life in one place, he preferred, instead of unraveling it, to move on to another, so that he piled involvement upon involvement. One of the several reasons for his high spirits on leaving Dublin was that he felt he had been forced into doing what he liked.