Our first night out and it’s going well. We left home in time to stop by the yarn shop in Franklin and easily found a parking spot for truck and T@B. We pulled into a state park on a Friday night without a reservation and scored a pretty campsite at about 3400 feet above sea level! Now we’re just sitting, noshing on a bit of dinner, enjoying our beverages, and listening to the birds chatter around us. This will be a two night stay before we head west.
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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