The Tropics of Blythe raises some mysteries. No such place exists today, and that’s hardly a surprise; your chance of coming across a motel with a big A-frame lobby AND and an adjacent Sambo’s are as likely as finding a two-headed jackelope.

(2008 Update: found! But that comes later in the site.)

Then there's this elfin fellow. That's Ken Kimes, motel developer. Therein hangs a tale.