You’re sitting by a campfire, hot dogs cooking (ah, how perfect) when suddenly… BOOM! A time machine appears! How’d it get there? Well, don’t worry about that for now, just get in and close the door!
A sign prompts you to choose a trip to the past or to the future with a note that you can return back to the present time later.
You try and open the door to get out, but no luck. The door is sealed shut behind you. No way out except…
A countdown clock appears just above your head. 10…9…8…7…6…5…
Quick! Press a button before, well, something bad happens!
Where are you going? Somewhere in the past? Back to the 1950s? The 1900s? 1850? 1750?! Or are you zipping straight ahead into the future. How far ahead? 2030? 2050? 2100? 2500?
After you respond, please leave a comment and tell us which direction and where (and when!) you’re headed. We may use these for an upcoming story, so be specific.
Oh, and have fun out there…
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Kids could play outside and explore the campground and you didn’t have to worry too much about them. Always came back to camper excited about all they did that afternoon.
I would choose the past because of all the memories I have. The future would show the things that are in your dreams now that never came to be and the things you enjoy now that no longer exist. The past would let you see the things you enjoyed that no longer exist today.
I’d go back to the prehistoric past, to see what the planet was actually like when dinosaurs roamed it.
You would get eaten.
Depends on how fast you could run and hide
The Past. I’d want to talk with my ancestors and learn about what it was like growing up for them. From what I’ve learned so far, some of my ancestors had a rough life living in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in the 1700s. I can always leave information for my descendents but my ancestors weren’t able to do that.
I’d go to the future. The library is a great place to learn about the past but the future has nothing but speculation to refer.
I would be interested in both directions for reasons already stated. However, if I had to pick just one it would be the future to 2050. That way I could come back and DO something about making it better!
I have always wanted to travel to the past and bring some of our founding fathers back with me, temporarily, to see how their hard fought nation had developed into this amazing country and a world leader.
The near past. Don’t know if I would have the skills needed to survive going too far back. Ditto for the future. Can you imagine how lost someone would be in our world coming forward only 100 years? AM radio had just arrived. Sound was new to cinema. The telegraph was more common than a phone. There were cars, but the roads were crap and most transportation was by horse or train. In the medical world, anesthesia was still fairly new and tricky to use. Most refrigeration still depended on ice deliveries.
The past. My mother passed when I was 21. I would like to visit that time from adult eyes, to see why she was so unhappy.
The past..I have to know how the Egyptians built the pyramids.
If I can’t make any changes, I would choose the future just to see what’s ahead…like peeking ahead a little in a good book!
I would go to the past to see how governments have rewritten history.
I love history so going to the past would be my choice. Mind you I would want to observe not live in the past. Most people today couldn’t handle the hardships those in the past faced on a daily basis. I have often said, “if our founding fathers were alive today, they’d be leading another revolution”.
Definitely the past to again see my entire family
When I was 20 I would have liked to have seen the future so I could have maybe changed some things going along the way forward. But at this age I think the past to understand and see the world and this country for the great accomplishments made first hand and the untouched beauty it had.
I don’t want to know the future. I believe that the future for any individual is not set in stone. We all walk along a path that has curves and many intersections some of which pop up after we make a decision, a turn onto one of those intersections. No, I’ll let the future be a surprise, good or bad.
OTOH, the past intrigues me both in terms of witnessing history and seeing historical figures but, more importantly, seeing my folks, extended family and long lost friends.
I have lived the future a day by day since I was born and am not too sure that I like the future that I have come to be in. Once we hit the 1950s, I could have stayed there – maybe into the 1960 because that is when cars were really cool – you could tell them apart.
Thank you for the question, RV Travel! In that I have questions about several aspects of my parents’ families, it would be my choice to go to a point in time when my grandparents were young adults and find out about their grandparents and parents. Not that it will ever happen, of course, but that would be my choice. Have a great weekend and safe travels!
I’d go back to change history for the better. Kill hitler Osama bin laden, and stop 9-11 before it happens. Also, take advantage of my knowledge of the real estate market and buy land where it sky rocketed.
Then I’d be set for life
The past. To get ” the rest of the story”. Good day!
Showing your age there, Dannie Boy
I’d go back to 1975 and buy thousands of shares of Microsoft. I would wait a year before returning so I could buy thousands of shares of Apple Computers in 1976.
Want to see if humans have worked out our differences/conflicts. Don’t mean cultural/life style, those differences are what make “traveling” so interesting and a learning experience.
First we are talking about observation only. Future without a doubt. I believe that history for the most part repeats itself it just has a different characters. 2050 would be nice not too far ahead that it wouldn’t be recognizable.
Both DH the historian & I think NOT the future- we’re too afraid of finding a sterile, barren irradiated landscape. For myself, back to my paternal grandmother’s childhood, so I could meet her & find out what drove her to independence at such a young age. I can see her as a suffragette. She had the guts to marry a divorced man DH says late 1700s in NYC or Philadelphia to observe the Founding Fathers in person.