Guanajuato, Mexico

In colorful Guanajuato, I couldn't resist a very narrow winding cobbled stairway that would its way up and up and up, past a couple of equally wound teenage lovers, one older man, and, finally, out to a sloping cobbled street. I stood on a landing over the street gasping for breath, my heart just about beating out of my chest because, after all this is a fairly high altitude and I am not an athlete. A family passed below me and the small son ponted up at me and asked his father about that lady standing up there. The parents both smiled at me as the man bent over to explain my presence to his young son. I asked him to wait while I fished in my pocket for a magnet. I said I had un regalo for the boy and tossed it down to him. Clearly the boy wasn't sure what to think but he posed for a picture anyway.

A small boy and his purple turtle magnet.

The view from their street.