If you could go back...

This is a question i like to ask people when I'm getting to know them because i think it says a lot about them, and it's just interesting to me:

If you could go back and visit ANY point in history, where would you go and why?

(keep in mind you wouldn't have to stay there, it would just be a visit)

I would go to Tudor England to the court of Henry the VIII, around the 1530's. I'm not sure what it is that fascinates me so much about him, his wives, or that period of time, but I'm nearly obsessed. I've read more books on it than I can count. When i finally get to visit Europe i plan to do an entire trip devoted to seeing all the related sites and museums.  

tell me where you'd go!  

I doubt I'd go back to anytime before they had indoor plumbing and centralized water sanitation (too stinky!)

Really not inclined to go back to pre-central heat and air days, truth be told.... 

So, I guess I'd say that I'd go back to New York City on February 9, 1964 so that I could go to the Ed Sullivan Show and see the Beatles' legendary performance, become a groupie, scream and swoon and participate in Beatlemania (and later defend them about the 'bigger than Jesus' comment).

I would love to go back to pre columbian america and just look around for a couple of days. Just see how raw and wild it was.

Next I would go back to Ireland and see my ancestors.

Then, I'd go back to my childhood and see some of the funny/crazy stuff we did as kids. I wouldn't change anything, but I would like to have the feelings of those moments again.

I think I'd love to be in Europe in the Mid-1700s when some of the greatest minds in the world were struggling with things we take for granted: Gravity, Motion, Thermodynamics, Elements, etc. I think that'd be interesting to see, firsthand. :)

No contest for me - back to the founding fathers. Would love to have met Thomas Jefferson. :)

hehehe and seduce him with your futuristic charms ;p

I would accompany pioneers on their quest for Manifest Destiny.  I realize that there are a lot of ethical problems with the Winning of the West, but the period in American history when California was being annexed and we were at war with Mexico fascinates me.

Plus there were horses, saloons, pistol duels...

Maybe I just want to live in the show Deadwood.

Renaissance Europe, the rebirth of scientific thought

Maybe Paris in the time of "bohemia".

Seeing Jesus's speeches would be interesting, following him around during those peak years (from what I understand he really did exist)

Understanding first hand the rise of Nazism in Germany by seeing it happen

Rome at its peak, ditto ancient Babylon, and most definitely the Minoans!

I hope I'd get to be a fly on the wall, however, instead of actually being incarnate as myself; women had no rights and women alone were pretty much in constant danger in those days. (19th century Paris and Nazi Germany maybe being the exceptions there, but even still.)

I'd like to visit the jurassic period and perhaps witness the extinction event.

Original Post by jules817:

hehehe and seduce him with your futuristic charms ;p

'xactly :D

my Thomas Jefferson history crush is no secret :D

December 26, 1985 the day BEFORE my dad was killed at work.

December 2003 - the last Christmas with Grandpa (which I knew would be his last) and my Mom (which I didn't know would be hers)  I take a lot more photos and would take the video camera.  I'd cherish every second. 

Or

Any point in my daughter's life from age 3-5 to be able to relive how simple things were, to play Candyland with her and have her snuggle on my lap as she fell asleep.

Or

Back to the 1880's to meet Laura Ingalls Wilder, to help her on the farm and share a meal with her and the whole family

Original Post by kathygator:

Original Post by jules817:

hehehe and seduce him with your futuristic charms ;p

'xactly :D

my Thomas Jefferson history crush is no secret :D

 KG and TJ, sittin in a tree...

Original Post by ignayshus:

I'd like to visit the jurassic period and perhaps witness the extinction event.

*coughcoughcough* Wrong Period
Try Cretaceous (or Maastrichtian if you want to be more exact)

Original Post by r4eboxer:

December 26, 1985 the day BEFORE my dad was killed at work.

 (((((r4eboxer))))

I'd like to either go back in the times of the Vikings for, like, a day, I just want to do the whole pillage and plunder thing just once and possibly meet some of my ancestors...and creep them out by telling them some weird short chubby girl is their great great great great great great great great great -and so on- granddaughter from the FUTURE!!

Or go to either the late 80's or early 90's. I'm perpetually stuck in that time frame and want to be reminded of how much it sucked so I can move on.

Original Post by purespark:

Original Post by kathygator:

Original Post by jules817:

hehehe and seduce him with your futuristic charms ;p

'xactly :D

my Thomas Jefferson history crush is no secret :D

 KG and TJ, sittin in a tree...

 I would so tap that...

I would go with nomo to see the Beatles.  :)

Or:  August 28, 1963 to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the "I have a dream" speech.

Or April 12, 1980 on the coast of Newfoundland to watch my personal hero dip his leg in the Atlantic to start his run across Canada.

Or: Elizabethan England and the Globe Theatre to see the debut of one of WS's plays.

I also think it would be awesome to go back and experience various decades during the last century.  A trip to the 60's would be way cool.  I was born late in the decade, but would have been awesome to truly experience the 60's.

Original Post by hkellick:

Original Post by ignayshus:

I'd like to visit the jurassic period and perhaps witness the extinction event.

*coughcoughcough* Wrong Period
Try Cretaceous (or Maastrichtian if you want to be more exact)

Neg sir, wiki it if you like.

The transition from Triassic to Jurassic involved an extinction event, of which I'm speaking.

There were some before and after, but I'm talking about the one that lead to dinosaurs gaining dominance.