We’re camped in Lake Bistineau State Park south of Shreveport, Louisiana. After we arrived we realized we’d camped here before – in August 1984! We were on our way home from a family gathering in Santa Fe. We set up camp after dark and when we awoke the next morning we were enchanted with the view of the bayou out of our camper window. Today we arrived in the mid-afternoon and enjoyed an evening of leisure in camp.
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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