1.  The world with Palin is armchair travel on the scale of the grand tour, in the company of an agreeable guide.

2.  In fact, for Americans, this may be the ultimate in armchair travel, since the U.S. government still prohibits American citizens from spending U.S. currency in Cuba.

3.  My armchair travel via Dave, cyberspace and telephone has been a great adventure.

4.  When the professional photographer Francis Frith established a mass market for armchair travel in Egypt a few years later, the freshness evaporated.