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.

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