The very best things about BsAs that pictures can't capture

• The stars of the Southern Cross
• Bold, squid-inky Malbecs
• Walking in the full heat of the summer sun, and stepping into the cool, gracious shade of the city's thousands of trees, or those balmy buenos aires that gave the city its name
• 24-hour tango channel (= ¡¡adicción!!)
• Learning Spanish swear words from the subtitles of Ru Paul's Drag Race
• The fact that the beauty of the city combined with the sensuality of the culture feels like permission for pleasure
• Riding in a taxi at midnight with the windows rolled down letting the summer night air flow over you at 60 miles per hour down La Libertador Boulevard, with its ridonkulous 9 lanes of wide-open traffic lanes-- it's a logjam in the heart of the city during the day, but it's a taxista's drag strip dream at night