if i were to go back in time i would go to woodstock the original August 1969 version, so i would have loved to have been there and seen Jimi Hendrix live and sharing the same stage as Santana, Joan Baez and so many others that played there. that's what i would do.
For me, a tossup. If I could go back in time I'd like to live at the end of the last ice age. But I'd also like to peek into the future and see if the "grays" - those aliens with the big heads and eyes - are actually our own descendants.
My 1st trip would be to the reopening of the Fork Bridge British Columbia in 1941 and take the photo containing a 'Time Traveling Hipster'; I'd then sit back and chuckle at all the people who claim there's a time traveler in the photo whilst oblivious of the fact it's the photographer that's the time traveler. My next trip would be to 2000/2001 and visit the same bulletin boards as John Titor. I'd then clam to be a John Titor from an alternative time line & give a few predictions of my own of the future; that could really mess with peoples minds I'm undecided on what my 3rd trip would be. I'd possibly go back to 1215 & somehow obtain a copy of the Magna Carter. I'd then bury it somewhere safe; return to the present and dig it up. I'd then have my own genuine 800 year old copy of the Magna Carter. I'd either do that or go back to Roman London and buy all the land for miles around; I'd then own the land that modern day London is built on.
if i could travel in time, i'm not sure that i would. but i would use that ability instead, to control the amount of time that goes by, while traveling through space, and by doing that, be able to wander all over the universe, within the duration of a normal life.
it's not like your modern money will get you anything in ancient greece anyway... unless you plan on traveling back there with some expensive weaponry and taking shit over or something.
It would help with advanced sanitation, food supply, and so on. Maybe a Nubian slave or two to attend to my 'needs'.
I would go all the way back in time and go to the first primordial pool of oozing goo when life first formed on this planet.... and piss in it.
That depends. do you mean go back in time as myself now or as my past self? If I were to go back in time, while retaining the knowledge I have now, I'd probably go back to 1995 or so... repair a few tears in the timeline of my life and others' perhaps. Without retaining knowledge, I'd probably go back to 2002-4 and re-live a few epic campouts. Eh... along with turbulent times with my family... I feel like it'd be worth it? Maybe back to 2011 and save my friend from doing something stupid. As for going back to live in a certain time, experience a certain culture, or meet a particular person? idk. I'd like to experience California in the 60's, but then that means having to deal with Vietnam era too. Maybe back to the 20's to experience the Industrial Revolution, cars being a new concept, organized crime, a vintage era... but again, having to live through the Great Depression... I don't know man. I kind of like the era I'm in. Though, it's all I 'know.'