We have begun our South Dakota adventures! We spent the morning at the Falls Park just north of downtown Sioux Falls learning a lot about the geology and the history of the area. Then we headed west on I-90 to Mitchell, South Dakota. Now we can say “Been there, done that” about the Corn Palace. Also stopped at Cabela’s but couldn’t find any camping gear that we thought would improve our style. At Oacoma we stopped for buffalo burgers at Al’s Oasis. Now we are camped at a KOA just outside of The Badlands. The landscape is phenomenal. We’ll spend tomorrow exploring the park.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
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