This is a "retro &/or futuristic" question...

I've become so boring. Years ago I could have named several unusual times & places I would go. But now, all I can think of is returning to the time I was with my loved ones now gone. I sadly realized just the other day I have no more ambitions or goals--just to spend time with son & grandson is all I want.

I'm boring.
 

I would like to go back in time to see and be with my great great grandparents on both sides. Then I'd take a leisurely trip back and visit each generation that came after them until the present.
I have a strong feeling that the way the world is now I doubt I'll be in any hurry to return.
I may even disable my time machine so I have an excuse not to return.
 
I'd go back to 1971 to attend the Allman Brothers concerts at the Fillmore East when they recorded their phenomenal and seminal live album. One of the biggest blunders in American music history was that nobody filmed those concerts. There are only a few high quality video recordings of the ABB playing live and the longest is less than half-an-hour long.
 
Pepper said:
I've become so boring. Years ago I could have named several unusual times & places I would go. But now, all I can think of is returning to the time I was with my loved ones now gone. I sadly realized just the other day I have no more ambitions or goals--just to spend time with son & grandson is all I want.

I'm boring.
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I put a heart emoji because the basic reaction ones don't have a hug, which is what i felt-- that you needed a hug.

Couple of thoughts:

There are worse aspirations than wanting to spend time with those you love most, either here and now or those we miss because they gone from this life.

Boring gets a bad rap. My current life may look boring, especIally to young folks and in contrast try to my earlier decades. But living rural, interacting with nature, being able to enjoy the night sky i can due to low light pollution is awesome to me. Hardly a day goes by i don't have moments of just standing still, soaking in some beautiful sight, even on days when i'm dealing with practical issues, problems

Having lived a life that had a lot of excitement and drama at times i am grateful for calmer one now. That said i think of my Dad's observation that if one knows how to use one's imagination, one need never be bored.
 
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Depends on various factors. If i could merely observe or if i'd be there fully able to interact with the natural inhabitants of the time/place.

If the latter i would not go to past, risk of altering our present in ways that made it worse or creating a paradoxical glitch in reality too great. If as observer only there might be moments in history i would like to witness for myself.

The future intrigues me, and other dimensions, but again i'd rather be an invisible observer so as not to upset the universe's unfolding naturally. My mind will playing with possibilities for days.
 
I'd know right where and when I'd go. To ancient Egypt at the building of the Pyramids. This time was at the very dawn of civilization. A million and a half people decided to call themselves, "Egyptians". It wasn't just the actual building of the pyramids, it was all the planning and getting materials from thousand miles away. How they accomplished such a feat, when it was so far back in history that they didn't yet have the concept of money, nor even the button.
 
Pepper said:
I've become so boring. Years ago I could have named several unusual times & places I would go. But now, all I can think of is returning to the time I was with my loved ones now gone. I sadly realized just the other day I have no more ambitions or goals--just to spend time with son & grandson is all I want.

I'm boring.
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I don't think that you are boring, and I am sure that I am not alone.
 
Being of North Atlantic heritage, I would want to go back to visit the Frisians but I'm not sure what era. Maybe just before the Viking incursions? Going ahead would be intriguing too. Can we do both?

Has anyone seen the movie, "The Adam Project" ? Clever dialogue and a recent fun film about time travel. Another good one, just showed up on Netflix this week: "Captain Nova" - a Dutch film (with subtitles) for young adults but no battles and no swearing - was a pleasant distraction.
 
Pepper said:
I've become so boring. Years ago I could have named several unusual times & places I would go. But now, all I can think of is returning to the time I was with my loved ones now gone. I sadly realized just the other day I have no more ambitions or goals--just to spend time with son & grandson is all I want.

I'm boring.
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I feel about the same
 
That above fantasy aside, I'd love to see areas of the United States before Europeans came here. This land must have been beautiful. Obviously still is. But I wonder about the town I live in also.
 
Pepper said:
I've become so boring. Years ago I could have named several unusual times & places I would go. But now, all I can think of is returning to the time I was with my loved ones now gone. I sadly realized just the other day I have no more ambitions or goals--just to spend time with son & grandson is all I want.

I'm boring.
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Yep. along the line that Andy Griggs sang.

If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything i wanted was out there waitin
And everyone i loved was still alive
 
Stephen King's book 11/22/63 covers that. Guy goes through a "rabbit hole" to a specific date in 1959 and "stays until 1963. The King twist is that when you go back to modern time, only 2 minutes have passed. Made it into a mini series on Hulu (I think)

I would want to go back, but have so many thoughts on where...maybe to the day I broke my arm, and tell myself not to climb on the damn folding chair.
 
dseag2 said:
Maybe I'm not imaginative, but there is no past or future time I would like to visit. I certainly don't want to see what's ahead 20 years from now. I'm enjoying and being grateful for my life right now as it is.
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We're pretending you can come back, though. Wouldn't you like to spend a day wearing real spats and one of those springtime straw hats while looking over a brand new antique auto?
 

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