This morning we’re in a growing rainstorm as we depart Goose Island Campground. We awakened to misty rain and a misty view of the Great River. In addition we still had a few of the mosquitoes from our midnight battle with the blood suckers. It’s been a good morning to grab a quick shower, hitch up the T@B, and plan on stopping at the Kwik Trip for food and fuel before we head across Ol’ Man River.
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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