West Virginia is along our route today as we trek north for a quick visit to Ohio to watch granddaughters dance this weekend. As always we were marveling at the landscape and this time really delighted in the Redbud trees blooming at the edge of the woods all along I-77. And as always we talked about taking time to explore the state. Just before leaving the state we stopped at the WV Welcome Center at Williamsburg near Parkersburg. Outside we checked out the West Virginia Fallen Worker Memorial We’ve always found welcome centers a great place to begin exploring a region and vow to check one out when we begin an extended visit to The Mountain State.
Sue and I ventured down to Nags Head, camping at Oregon Inlet NSeashore. In Reston VA for a few days and have been enjoying Spring. They have had snow back in Holland, MI while we have been enjoying temps in the 70’s. We’ll be in Ohio as well later this week. Put a new MaxxAir fan in our 320 and really enjoying it.
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.
Sue and I ventured down to Nags Head, camping at Oregon Inlet NSeashore. In Reston VA for a few days and have been enjoying Spring. They have had snow back in Holland, MI while we have been enjoying temps in the 70’s. We’ll be in Ohio as well later this week. Put a new MaxxAir fan in our 320 and really enjoying it.