SYNOPSIS OF MY WEB SITES      by John Martin MY WESTERN TRAVELS Rocky Mountain High is a travel web site that is still in progress.   I decided to build a web site to document my moving out to Colorado in the autumn of 2000.   It was to serve as a fun way to show family and friends around the country my experience as I was moving west and traveling around this great country.   It has grown immensely in size as I keep adding pages with each subsequent trip I take. I'm hoping to add many more pages to it as opportunities to explore the West present themselves.  I've managed to venture through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah since I've moved to Denver.  Next on the plate will be Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California.   A TRIP THROUGH NEW ENGLAND After finishing up a contract in October 1999, where I was an intranet developer for one of the federal government agencies, I thought it would be a fun thing to take an autumn tour of New England.  I was living in Maryland at the time and commuting alot to see a woman who lived near Philadelphia, so I was in close proximity to the New England states.   As it turned out, the trip was shortened a couple of weeks by a fortunate and unexpected turn of events which is described in the last page about Boston.   I only scratched the surface during my tour of New England and would love to return to visit cities and landmarks that I did not have time to see on this venture.   So perhaps more pages will be forthcoming on that site at some later date. PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNEYS Undoubtedly the most amazing and priceless journey I have ever taken is philosophical in nature.   This kind of travel cannot be photographed with my little digital camera.   I can do my best to convey this kind of inner trip to you with words, the canvas being this virtual web page, and the panoramic views represented by ideas and arguments.   I embarked on this trip from a very early age although I was never fully self consciously aware til later in life.   It started to have revolutionary effects on my inner life when I started the more formal study of philosophy in graduate school at The American University. There I was to meet and study under some great teachers, especially Phillip Scribner, who restored my faith in philosophy and introduced me to his spatio-materialistic ontological argument that is still exhilarating in its scope and ambition.   During my 30's, I immersed myself deeply into the writings of Friederich Nietzsche who has been very important in my understanding of the twentieth century and the psychology of human beings.   Nietzsche said something about how spoiled one becomes after reading his work. And it's true.   Many books, especially philosophical ones, appear quite lame, shallow and boring in comparison.  Nietzsche is both extraordinarily profound and great fun at the same time; a rare feat of writing. I hope you enjoy the few pages I have that are written in various styles about topics that interest me.   There's also a link to Scribner's web site, entitled, "The Wholeness of the World."   Be forewarned, that web site is enormous and demanding, but very rewarding for those who make the effort to really go through it.