Bright sunshine and morning temperature already 64 F. The thermometer climbed during the day to 89 F.
Strangely not hot because a light breeze freshened everything up a bit.
AS my travels in the US are coming now to an end and basically everything is geared towards my departure on
Monday from Boise Airport I originally planned to make a straight ride to Boise but with a little detours. To avoid
driving part of the road again ( I drove most of to when I originally arrived in Boise from Seattle on my way to the
Yellowstone ) I avoided as much as possible the same road using like yesterday small country roads.
On my way to the Yellowstone I had learned that a very famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, is been buried in Ketchum,
Idaho. After I visited his birthplace in Oak Park/Chicago, I found it more then fitting to visit his final resting place.
Hemingway came for the first time back in 1939 to Ketchum in the Sun Valley after the Union Pacific chairman invited him
and other celebrities to the area. He stayed in a local hotel where wrote “For Whom The Bell Tolls”. Originally he stayed during
the winter month in Cuba and the summer month in Ketchum. Then in 1959 he gave up Cuba and bought a house in Ketchum.
Being depressive he committed suicide on July 2nd, 1961. His last wife, Mary, is buried next to him.
Unfortunately his house wasn’t open anymore so I drove on to reach in the early afternoon my motel in Boise, just around
the corner from the airport. Very convenient.
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