Historical Time Period

If I could pick a historical time to visit I would definitely want to visit America when it first became a country.  I would want to be one of the Pilgrims that came over to the United States before it was a country and lived here.  I wonder how life was like and if it was a big difference from where they came.  It would be cool to be at the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims and Indians came together to have a feast.  I would like to experience the signing of the Declaration of Independence and be able to meet George Washington.  I think it would be exciting to see how our country became what it is today and the changes it has gone through until now.  It would be interesting to see the whole Ellis Island process where people were coming from all over the world to the new land.  
In addition to going back in time to see the signing of the Declaration of Independence I would also want to go to back to 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.  I can only imagine how the news would have been back then when the first man stepped foot on the moon.  Especially with the technology back then it was extremely impressive that someone could fly into outer space on a spaceship and actually walk on the moon.  It is fascinating to me now it 2012 so I cannot even imagine how amazing it must have been back then.  It is a crazy idea to think that a huge spaceship can fly through the air and without falling down to Earth from gravity.
         Another thing I would like to go back in time and experience would be to live through the 1970's.  Everyone that lived through the seventies said it was the best time and it was a lot better than life is now.  I would like to experience walking down the street and seeing hippies all over the place.  It would be interesting to compare the different clothing styles and the different lifestyles from the 1970's to today in 2012.  It would be really cool to have to live without all the technology that we have today.  I probably would be really lost without it, but I would want to see if I could live without a cell phone, iPod or, the internet.  Life would be so different and it would definitely be hard to adjust. 
       In conclusion, there are many different places that I would want to visit if I were able to travel back in time to a different time period or historical time.  I would want to know all the different things that happened each decade and be able to see how the United States has changed and grown to become the country that it is today.  It would be really interesting and inspiring just to see how far we have come with all our technology and way of life.