These are the access stairs to the beach we visited in Santa Barbara. Actually, they are only a fraction of the stairs we had to climb to get to the beach. The kids counted over 200 stairs. As you can imagine, going down was a lot easier than going up. A couple of residents passed us by several times. They were exercising by jogging up and down the stairs. Crazy people!

One thing is certain: The journey upward is always difficult, yet worth the effort.

Photo taken with a Nikon D40x in Santa Barbara, CA. Post in Capture NX2.