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While introducing my reluctant juniors to American Romanticism (we had just come from the land of the Puritans...they would rather read no more), I asked them if they would rather be a Puritan or a Transcendentalist.  We got into a conversation about time travel and which time period and place we would choose to go if we could.  So, for kicks and giggles, where would you go?  Why?  Be careful...even if something "looks" ideal and romantic through our 21st Century eyes, danger lurketh everywhere!  (Smile)

Okay...with my trusty hidden stash of antibiotics, deodorant, shampoo, and toothpaste, I would LOVE to see what Elizabethan England was really like.  I'd go see a play at the Globe, I'd try to hunt down Shakespeare and buy him a drink (although he would probably think I was a woman of ill repute if I were hanging out in a tavern), I'd try to get a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth and her GORGEOUS clothing...

LOTS and LOTS of antibiotics! :)

Ok, so if we can manage time travel, surely we can come up with vaccines to prevent getting any diseases or catching any parasites. I would love to go back and watch the aliens build the pyramids. Seriously, I really would like to visit ancient Egypt, probably around the time of Nefertiti. How did her stepson King Tut really die???

How fun!  I LOVE the idea of time travel...one of my favorite series is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.  My sons and I recently watched the movie Timeline.  I am actually torn about where I'd want to go.  Naturally I would love to visit England in the Elizabethan era. I often speak of being an archeologist (much to my husband's moaning as he already claims my salary isn't enough to sneeze at), so any historically intriguing place--the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the pyramids of Egypt, the ruins of the Mayans--while the history was happening.

Cool stuff.  Thanks for humoring me.  :)

In reply to #4: Read the book Timeline; it's much better than the movie, as usual. I just finished a fascinating book about the lost colony at Roanoke--Splintered Icon by Bill Napier. It's very good.

Thanks for the tip.  Being a history nut and an avid reader, I'm always looking for good things to read.  I'm currently reading The Poisonwood Bible, my first Kingsolver novel.  I am in love with her use of language...it's so poetic and trips melliflously off the tongue.  I will be looking into more of her stuff. 

I will add the books Timeline and Splintered Icon to my reading list!  Thanks!

The Outlander series is sure wonderful - Do you know when the last one is supposed to come out, Amy?