Our home tonight is at the KOA near Needles CA between Historic Route 66 and the Colorado River in the Mojave Valley. Tonight we are blessed with perfect weather, a beautiful sunset with purple mountains in the distance, and a clear sky with no moon. As we sit in our sling chairs staring into the Milky Way, we’re thrilled to be in the desert tonight with a billion stars all around. We dug out the silver iPod and played the appropriate Eagles tune!
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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