Uphill

The city where I'm currently living, Xalapa, the capitol city of the state of Veracruz, is in a mountainous area. Streets are on an incline, some quite steep. Walking up those hills is good exercise, good for the lungs, but oh my goodness, I do get tired of going uphill.

This is the view from a park in the city center. I wonder if this might be the highest elevation in the city, explaining why they chose this location for the official government buildings. My apartment is about six blocks from here, uphill of course.

This uphill walk is near one of the mercados I shop at. This view is from the top of the walkway, followed by the view from the bottom. 

My camera view gave me nine stairs out of the fourteen in total. It's quite a climb.

Even going to church is an uphill climb. Whew!

I walked up this street today to get to a tailor shop, where I had a new zipper put in a jacket. It may not look so steep from this view, but I promise it's on an incline all the way from the bottom of the street to the top, where I stood to take the picture. Five blocks uphill.

Another crazy incline street. You can tell what I'm talking about by the line of that house. 

Can you imagine living down there and having to walk up those stairs every day to get to the main street at the top? I have not gone down there, although I've thought about it, just to see what's at the bottom. But then I'd have to climb back up.