We left Las Cruces and headed through El Paso across Texas to San Antonio. If you don’t already know it, let us tell you that Texas is a long state no matter how you cross it. El Paso to San Antonio is as far as St Petersburg to Atlanta. Saw lots of land, lots of energy related scenery, and good news – gasoline prices dropping! Ended the day getting a room on Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio and dinner in an Irish pub right on the Riverwalk.
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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