Time Travel

One day, on the very long drive to Orillia, my son and I were chatting about this, that and the other thing, when he asked me “Mom, if you had three wishes what would you wish for?”

Mmhmm, I thought, what would I wish for? I kinda have everything I need or even everything I really want ~ I’ve got a wonderful husband who loves me and takes wonderful care of me, I’ve got five fabulous kids {two of which are grafted into the family}, a cute little puppy to love, a country home, enough food, fairly decent health {I mean it could be worse - right?} the freedom to worship, extended family, a few friends, and the list goes on.. .. .. So I answered, “um, probably nothing”.

“oh,no!”, he says, “you gotta wish for something and you can’t ask for more wishes on your third wish”.

Yes, yes, I know the third wish rule.. .. .. Ok, so what would I wish for if I HAD to wish for something.. . . .

1. I would wish that I could teleport anywhere, anytime
2. I would wish that no matter what anything cost, I could put my hand in my pocket and come out with the exact amount of money in any currency to buy whatever I wanted
3. I would wish that I could travel through time to any era

After announcing my “wishes”, my son then said, “oh wow, those are great wishes”, and I thought yah, they were pretty good, I’d be set for life. I could teleport anywhere, have enough money for anything and experience any era I’d like.

Reading books, watching movies or t.v. shows about different periods of time kinda gives the experience of time travel, by teleporting you to different eras, like in “Painted Girls” by Cathy Marie Buchannan with the Victorian era and the ladies fashions with their elaborate dresses, using hoop skirt frames and crinolines. Or in Rita Legonki’s “The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow” set during the WWII. Or in Sophie Kinsella's “Wedding Night” and be transported to Italy.

I think it would be pretty cool to see observe first hand how history was shaped.. .. which brings me to my favourite show Quantum Leap ~ it’s premise “Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.”

In each episode, Sam & Al travel through time to different time periods and “change” the history, in a few episodes historical figures like Marilyn Monroe, Dr Ruth Westheimer, Elvis Presley are introduced. With its mix of comedy, drama and melodrama, social commentary, nostalgia, and science fiction, it soon became one of my favourites.
　

If you could travel back in time which era would like to visit and why?

Blessings