Neither. Well, that assumes I can't take anything with me. If I could in fact transpose my current situation to an equivalent situation in another time - eg if I could go to 2100 but still be about to start college in two months - I'd go to the near future. I'd be happy to skip about twenty to thirty years, because that's when things are going to get really interesting, and I want to be around to see them happen (Thus no distant future).

Unless I could have an attendant extended lifespan to take me up to at least 2050 regardless of when I started, I wouldn't go back in time without a way back. It'd be nice to experience certain things, and to influence them, but I'd rather see the future.