500 steps up to the Ahuacatlan Letters

Today, at home there was a snow day. Apparently, so much snow fell that it broke a 180 day record for snowfall in Toronto. The airport cancelled all flights, schools were cancelled and parked cars were buried under the snow. Once again, we are happy that we are here.

On our first day here, Chris just had to check out the trail up to the town’s sign that we can see from our hotel. But it’s not a trail. It’s 497 stairs going up to it. Each stair has a brick on the face of it showing which family donated money towards building the staircase. It is called Escaleritas.

Those stairs were calling me so we both headed out early in the morning, passing the bullring and it’s iconic bull statue, then saw the entrance to the stairs and walked up. The views of the town and the volcano were beautiful. Walking up maybe a short-lived habit while we are here. Good exercise in fresh, clean air.

Here’s someone’s video of the walk up.

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