Talo Segura

To reach any conclusion about time travel you would first need to understand time. It is easy to say that time is constant, the minutes, hours, days, years, tick away, at a regular pace. But that is not true. You know yourself how much longer a year was when you were young and how much quicker it passes when you are older. Your younger years were possibly marked on the wall as you grew taller, but it took forever for time to pass. Time is perhaps a necessary concept for order, however it doesn't necessarily exist. And if it doesn't exist, or it doesn't neatly mark out our passage through life in an ordered, measurable way, then what would be time travel. You would go back to somewhere before, when there is no before, except in your memories which are like dreams, hard to make solid, distorted, and not real. How about an ever changing now? No past, no future, it only seems like there is when actually there is only a huge now! Time makes sense because we physically grow old, if we didn't age it would make no sense at all to have time. You can't travel to a place that doesn't exist, so you cannot travel back to a past that never was. It is perhaps possible to cut through the now, but cutting through now is simply making connections and there are a huge number of those and they might influence the future, but not if they were there all along. Not if there is no future only a changing now, which seems like a future, but isn't. Time travel does not exist because time does not exist, you can't travel on a concept! And yes, to a certain extent destiny and fate are real enough, but you don't properly know your destiny, you might recognise it when it arrives, let's hope so!

Well, I guess being a sex club it's what you might expect! 🤣

This seems like a puzzle, little cameos of story from maybe before and then the present, kind of reflects Joel's memory and recollection, I'm waiting to see what happens and like @drsawzall how it all comes together?

All the best guys lived in Muswell Hill, including me of course 🤣

What was the worst climate disaster you or your family lived through? Britain froze solid in the winter of 1962 - 63 and sixty years on, it's still the worst winter ever...

Legal age in France for beer and wine is 16,(18 for spirits) but if you're with your parents, it's up to their discretion. Pretty liberal 🍷🍻

You maybe onto something there?

Maybe they (the border control) are not so competent or not too interested?

Good point, I'll let EKS answer that one...

When I was a teenager (sixteen) in the UK I used to regularly drink on Saturday nights in various pubs (bars). Never asked for ID and never a problem so long as we were not rowdy or causing trouble.

Nice start, loved the atmosphere, and wondering what happens next.

Unpredictable or not @CLJobe needs to edit chapter 1 to replace it with the intended chapter, at the same time get rid of centred text please, the unnecessary line breaks, just tidy it up, thank you.

It was definitely a very emotional journey, right up to the end when Jake and Danny ride off into the sunset! How things work out or worked out at that point in time probably depends on circumstances and destiny. You don't really, at seventeen find out anything about yourself you hadn't known for a few years, you just start to deal with it. Family and friends, you can only hope, like Danny, who was met with a great reaction from his best mate Nate and his mum. As @Al Norris says, the story confronts lots of questions and more... @Mark Ponyboy Peters your choice to add an epilogue, I don't think you have to, or that it's needed. I can well imagine the future for Jake and Danny. A sequel, that's something else and if there is another story to tell it's welcome, but this tale was one moment in time, now forever framed in my memory by your fabulous writing. Thank you for a wonderful, enlightening, story that will live forever!

Next stop Nimbin? The place has some history... Nimbin and surrounding areas are part of what was known as the "Rainbow Region", which was of cultural importance to the Indigenous Bundjalung people. The name Nimbin comes from the local Whiyabul (Widgibal) clan whose Dreamtime speaks of the Nimbinjee spirit people protecting the area. Since 1973, the area has been a haven for Australia's counterculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbin,_New_South_Wales#:~:text=History,-Nimbin Village%2C 2008&text=Nimbin and surrounding areas are,spirit people protecting the area.

You don't need to defend anything, you wrote a trilogy as you wanted it, that's it. For my part, as a reader, I came in at the third book and I simply couldn't bridge the difference between the prologue which I found exceptional and the run of the mill first chapter. That is not to say the rest of the story was not good, I don't know, I never crossed the bridge into the rest of the story. The prologue opened with a fantastic line: When I was growing up, Chisaw County only had one whore, and it continued in the same vein. By contrast, chapter one opened with: In the summer of 1992 my parents packed me off to stay with relatives so they themselves could spend the season touring continental Europe. It's not so bad, simply an ordinary opening like a diary style. My expectations were probably too high after being so impressed with the prologue. I'm sorry you've been sitting on this for the last 18 months, my comments were just what I felt at the time, perhaps I should have said nothing? Perhaps I will read the rest of the story now, why not, it seems promising and you grabbed me at the start. You have to keep in mind comments are only thoughts at the time and don't only reflect the story and writing, but the mood of the commentator, the circumstances at the time. A great artist, author, might not necessarily be recognised as such immediately.