Most of us have read stories and/or seen movies about time machines … a contraption which is able to take us to anyplace at any time. To the best of my knowledge they don’t exist in reality. (It is probably a good thing.) The concept is to take us forward or backward in time … to another day … to a particular happening.

I think one of the most interesting movies about the subject of time travel was The Final Countdown starring Kirk Douglas as the commanding officer of an American aircraft carrier. That one ship had more warfare capability by itself than all of WW2 combined. They found themselves passing thru a strange low lying cloud or sorts which transferred them back to in time to Dec. 7, 1942 just as the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor. They had the ability to change history and had to decide what to do. They realized that they could not intervene without serious consequences occurring. I found it fascinating.

Nope, it is all just fiction folks. It doesn’t exist. But I will tell you what … you have a sort of time machine if you have a tadpole trike. Yes, most of us can say that when we ride our trikes it transports us backwards in time to when we were much younger. I know for me it happens every time I ride it.

1960 produced a well known movie entitled The Time Machine. It is a story by the well known H G Wells and starred Rod Taylor. He built a time machine and traveled in it thru time and various history. It was another good movie. There is a newer version (2002) of the movie, but I have never seen it except for the first few minutes of it. Quite honestly it didn’t look as interesting as the 1960 version so I never finished watching it. I find that to be the case with most movies they have remade. True Grit definitely comes to mind when this subject comes up.

Anyway,  back to tadpole trikes I think many of us would say that riding one brings out the kid in us and I think that is about as close as we can get to actually having a time machine. What do you think?

KEEP ON TRIKIN’

P.S.- I watched the rest of the Time Machine 2002. Just as I expected it was lousy. Not a single actor that is known to me anyway. They don’t make movies like they used to.