Well organised, and actually useful
Your Venus wears Virgo and works out of the 9th house, so what draws you outward is not adventure for its own sake but the chance to learn something properly. The trip has a purpose, the reading has a subject, and the enthusiasm is real even though it never sounds like enthusiasm.
Your travel is consequently well prepared. Documents in order, research done, a route that works, and a genuine irritation with people who arrive somewhere having read nothing about it. That preparation is part of the pleasure rather than a chore preceding it.
A philosophy that has to be usable
Ideas about how to live interest you only if they can be practised on an ordinary Tuesday. Grand systems that fall apart on contact with work and laundry are, to you, decoration. That scepticism keeps you out of a great deal of nonsense and it can dismiss things prematurely, so give one large idea a full season before ruling on it.
You come back with a skill, not a story
What you bring home from abroad is usually something you can now do: the technique, the language at a working level, the method somebody showed you. That is a far more durable souvenir than the photographs. Keep the habit and take one lesson, class or apprenticeship on any significant trip, since it is the part you will still be using in ten years.
Uneasy without a plan for the day
Unstructured time in an unfamiliar place makes you anxious rather than free, and you will fill it with logistics instead of admitting the discomfort. Build one deliberately empty half-day into any trip and practise sitting in it. The capacity to be somewhere without a purpose is genuinely learnable and it is the part of travel you have been missing.
You check what other people simply believe
Presented with a claim, you look it up, and you have quietly corrected a good deal of confidently stated nonsense over the years. This is a real contribution and it makes you tiring company for anybody who was enjoying the story. Pick your moments. Accuracy delivered at the wrong time is heard as pedantry however right it is.
Attracted to somebody who does something properly
What draws you to a person from a different world is usually their craft rather than their strangeness: how they work, what they are expert in, the discipline they have. That is a sound basis and it is not a complete one. Ask how they handle an ordinary difficult week, since expertise and daily life are different tests entirely.
Routines do not travel by themselves
Your wellbeing depends on regularity, and away from home the sleep, the food and the movement all go at once. You have probably concluded that travel simply disagrees with you. It does not. Rebuild the morning routine on day one wherever you are, and most of what you have been calling poor travelling stops happening.
Mastery, rather than a collection of interests
You are capable of becoming genuinely expert in something, and the thing standing in the way is the number of subjects you keep at a competent level. Choose one to take past the point where it stops being enjoyable. That stretch is where expertise is actually made, and you are better equipped for it than almost anybody.
The specialist people travel to consult
Your professional shape is depth rather than breadth: the person who knows this particular thing thoroughly and is sought out for it. Publishing, teaching or documenting what you know accelerates this enormously and you will resist doing so on the grounds that you are not expert enough. You have been expert enough for some years.
Friends who share a subject
Your friendships work best when they are built around something: a shared field, a practice, a project. Purely social contact with no subject leaves you with nothing to say and a suspicion that you are bad at people. You are not. Choose the company that comes with an activity, and the conversation looks after itself.