More Key West

 

One of the things we wanted to see in Key West was the former home of Ernest Hemingway one of the greatest writers of our time. You can read all the normal facts about him and this place elsewhere and his life here after 1931.

The above picture of the outside of the place is right off Wikipedia because I forgot to take one of the outside. Really neat landmark and a tribute to a truly eccentric however brilliant writer during his all too short life. There is no air conditioning so the place with its original furniture looks and feels like it did during his tenure there.

Here is one of the six toed cats that now live in and around the house. There are quite a few wandering about in all the rooms and gardens and all have names of past celebrities or other famous persons ... really funny fat feet.

And more to the oddness of the man ... hey you didn't expect the normal house tour here did you? OK, the flat thing forming the base of this fountain is a urinal dragged by the author himself after a dispute at a local bar and placed in the garden where the gardener made it into a functioning fountain ... and cat drinking place.

And the bathroom off the master bedroom upstairs. Apparently Ernest could sit here with the window open and yell at his friends passing on the street out in front of the house.

This was a really informative and fun tour of one of our national landmarks and wrapped up our visit to the Key West area.

On our way out of town there was a local event featuring scuba diving so of course you have to have a 20 foot long scuba person kite.

Then into the Flying Scotsman and off down I-95 to the north for more adventures.