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Great adventures, excursions and escapes. Expand your horizons, learn about other cultures, share adventures. Motivation for your own exploration of the world. Virtual or actual - that will be your final question.

Armchair Cuisine
Cuisine connected to time, place and memory: recipes, foods, ingredients and preparation - virtual synesthesia. Recreate a memory, create future memories with our recipes, share your memories by sending us your recipes with a story. We could add yours to ours.

Perspectives on Reality: The Time Warp
What is Armchair World's Time Warp? It's a glimpse into our past and a look into possible futures. Articles include "Los Angeles in the 1930's ", "Women Inventors" and more.

Perspectives on Science
Our perspective on the physical world. Find out how rainbows are formed (by Dr. Murty Mantravadi). Learn how Human Factors research has impacted industry, technology and our everyday life (by Dr. John Lyman).

The Well Informed Traveler
Almost everything you need to know about travel. Add this to your "A" list for future travel research. Topics include tourist bureaus, protecting yourself against terrorism, travel scams, customs regulations, information by country and much more.

Travel Medicine
Keep up with topics in travel medicine. This section leads off with a paper on Travel Medicine by travel and tropical medicine specialist Dr. Alan Spira. Be prepared before you go. A must for the well informed traveler.

Wellness
Investigate the world of psychiatry written with the layperson in mind. This section is anchored with a bi-monthly column on mental health and mental illness by psychiatrist Peter Melgaard Thompson. His column is titled "In Transition".

What's New on Armchair World
Check out highlights of our latest content additions to our site.

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The Company Store
Armchair World provides quality items that supplement our pages. Check out our hologram 2D and 3D gift gallery and our gourmet baking supplies. We accept credit cards and will gladly expedite your last-minute gift orders.

Airline Tickets & Hotel Reservations
You can now book airline tickets on the internet through an interface on Armchair World.We've also got a hotel at LAX Airport (what a view!) with rates and an upgrade only possible when you mention Armchair World.

Travel-Related Insurances
Come to Armchair World for tour, cruise and travel insurance. We are also offering International Major Medical Insurance in conjunction with Insurance Services of America. This insurance is available worldwide!

Travel Specials
Timely specials you can book directly through us. We've chosen carefully. They are all special but they are not necessarily inexpensive.

Charters
Luxury yacht and jet charters where getting there could be the best part of the trip.

Airport Parking
As a new service on Armchair World, we recommend airport parking services that can save you money and enhance your overall flying experience.

Touring Resources
We have organized these by specialty. Each tour provider has an interesting and informative description of what they do. So if you want to go trekking.....

Lodging Resources
Here are some great hotels, spas, and b&b's. Each has a description giving you a bit of the flavor of the place. Unwind, rekindle, spark, or just plain lay back. The great ones are here.

Armchair Resource Guide
This guide lists people, companies, and services by category and alphabetically. You'll find name, address, phone and specialty here with jumps to expanded descriptions and more..

Medical/Health Services
Travel Medicine Services including inoculations and health preparation for travel to exotic locales.

The Armchair Wormhole
Jump to other sites. Some of these are virtual adventures that only exist in cyberspace; some have cameras focused (almost real-time) on interesting spots around the globe; and others are mind expanding.

Public Service Announcements
These are announcements of upcoming events, solicitations for a good cause and the like.

Get the Armchair Brief
The Armchair Brief is our subscription newsletter covering late breaking news and goodies that might be of interest to our Armchair Surfers. It comes on an infrequent basis and is purposely brief -- but you must request it to get it.

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