We’re traveling a familiar route this morning but for a different reason. Usually on this section of highway we’re getting close to home often at the end of a long day of travel. Today our total driving time will be just over an hour. We’re heading to a KOA west of Asheville to rendezvous with friends for a three day weekend! And we’re fresh enough to want to search for the cache: The Less-Used End of the Rest Area at the NC Welcome Center.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
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.
Oh, yes! We did find the geocache and it was well worth the effort.
Ha! That song about bottles on a wall comes to mind. Enjoy your rendezvous. I hope your weekend weather there, is drier than it’s forecasted to be here.