yes indeed

He was born in 1900. Maybe a quick trip from 1910 to 1930ish. He died in 1964 but he was my best friend during some very formative years. I did not know My Fathers father. He died when I was five.

I'd have to guess when war is obsolete, cancer and other diseases are easily cured, telepathy is benign and widespread, money is no longer needed because food and other material things are replicated (a la Star Trek) and we can materialize our dreams

Can I change Anything while I’m there?

But for this question sure!

Bronze Age Europe just to see what that technology bump I could bring with me might produce today.

What? I’m an experimentalist.

Could have cured so many Dark Age diseases. The wheel could have originally been steel belted. Renaissance toothbrushes! I mean, think about it. Of course Monty Python would never have been able to make The Holy Grail, but it’s an acceptable cost.

- Leo

1968-69. It was awesome for a 14 year old.

and join up with Lewis & Clark. Imagine seeing this country untouched.

I gotta think on this. 👍

And be among the first choristers to sing the piece that electrified me the first time I heard it: his 1610 Vespers.

2nd choice would be 1980s Amsterdam when Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Choir were recording all of Johann Sebastian Bach’s choral works. I have the entire set, but I’d have been thrilled to be performing them.

As the Doctor says, "I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing."

I quit time traveling when I met my wife. I didn't want to screw that up.

My mind went a little sideways with adolescence and it wasn't until my last year of college that I'd managed to claw most of it back. I was "asked" to take time off from college twice (under the implied threat of permanent expulsion) because, quite honestly, I was crazy. My parents didn't even ask. I think I'd worn them out. At my lowest point I was living in my broken car in a church parking lot and foraging for food in dumpsters. It took me nine years to graduate.

It's like the movie Arrival. You see the future perfectly well, even the traumatic stuff, and you decide to go there anyways.

The music was pretty good, too. And the cars. And the miniskirts.

-- Mal

Pre-european invasion.

I'd fit in because I'd be willing to wear a suit & tie everywhere.
I've got a fascination with baseball pre 1940 & jazz was starting to proliferate.
Finally, I don't drink much so the stupidity of Prohibition wouldn't affect me.
I'd still go to the speakeasies for the music though!

Best part, I'd also look forward to the wonderful 30's big bands. Oh me....What a wonderful dream.

Street art for the people. More to eat for the remaining population.

Disease, poor sanitation, terrible inequality, etc.

… no way would I leave the present, despite all of its problems. We generally overlook how good we (well, most of us in the first world) have it.

I really, really want to know why they built those structures, but there's no time in history I would want to stay in.

I'd stop my father's mother from being forced to marry my grandfather. She was 19. Her parents were dead. Her brother didn't want her to live with him, his wife, a small child and another on the way. She didn't want to get married.

I know I'm talking myself out of existence, but I can't stand the idea that she left Lithuania, came to America, and she had absolutely no freedom.

I could meet both oh my grandfathers and my other grandmother. My great-great grandmother who emigrated from Ireland with h r r kids would be there. Also one great-grandmother, and two great-grandmothers. Also assorted greataunts and uncles, plus ousns I've only heard about.

The best would be seeing my parents as kids and the world they lived in.

I've seen photos of Chicago in those years, and would like experience them as thy were.

Great question.

Will I return to the present afterward?

If I have multiple trips, then there are multiple times and places I'd go to. For instance, travel back to the 1960s and '70s and fly first class on Pan Am to many places. You have no idea how wonderful it was. I do, because I was an airline employee back then, and actually flew first class on Pan Am and many other airlines.

I'd also go back and talk to all of my grandparents. My paternal grandfather died before my parents were married. The others lived long enough that I knew them. Sort of. In the way young children don't know their grandparents. All of them emigrated from Ireland. Oh, the things I could ask them.

Otherwise, one trip only (and again I'm hoping I get to return back to now at the end) I'd go to the court of Henry VIII when his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was winding down and his affair with Anne Boleyn was heating up. What did they look like? I'd take lots of pictures. What was it really like in the court then?

That way, I could see Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, the Bill Evans Trio with Scott LaFaro, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Sun Ra, and John Coltrane...in their prime, or close to it.

That's just the jazz artists I could think of offhand. I'd also go to hear Sinatra, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Glenn Gould, Nat King Cole, etc. etc. a long list. (I would miss Hendrix, though, cause he'd still be in the Army.)

Made a private bad mistake and would go back to prevent it from ever happening.

I would go (is invisibility on the table?) to an area where they co-existed to see what the relationship was. And I want to see a Neanderthal.

Either that, or Cleopatra era. Decisions, decisions.