So I’m in Buenos Aires right now. Doing a little sight seeing. I’ve notice that when I travel I never visit a country–I alway visit a city.

I rarely leave that city unless my trip is over. So, I’ve visited Barcelona, not Spain. Rome, not Italy. Cuzco, not Peru. In the city I walk. Everywhere. I shop, for mundane things like groceries. Sure I check out a few touristy things, but the big attraction for me has always been the cities themselves. And you can only see a city by walking its streets, yourself, no guide.

Some might think this a waste. Why go all that way and just see one city? But cities are reticent. They don’t open up to the casual acquiantance. You have to spend time with them, to get peronal, to let a city time to soak into you. If you don’t give it enough time you might as well just look at a picture book.

So anyway, I’m here to see if Buenos Aires and I are friends. So far it look promising.