Istel is the founder of Felicity and the town’s longtime mayor, having been elected, almost 30 years ago, to an apparent lifetime term. The vote was unanimous: Istel voted for himself and so did Felicity’s other resident, Istel’s wife, Felicia. The town, established in 1986, consists of the Istels’ home and a half-dozen other buildings that the couple built on 2,600 acres in the middle of the desert near Yuma, Ariz., just off Interstate 8. At the north end, up an imposing staircase, sits the Church on the Hill at Felicity — inspired by a little white chapel in Brittany — that Istel built in 2007. The church is gorgeous and serene and looks eerily out of place, though less out of place than the 21-foot-tall stone-and-glass pyramid on the opposite end of town. The pyramid is there to mark the exact center of the world.

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"We like staying in the Hampton Inns when traveling because they are consistent in cleanliness and comfort. This one had a really good breakfast set up."

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"Thought everything was great Good staff excellent facility wonderful breakfast. The only thing I didn't understand was why I had to deposit $100 after paying for the room and that I would not receive it for eight or nine days seems to me that the deposits may be used to supplement profits"

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