One-Minute Vacations

And no suitcases to unpack.

A gift from The Quiet American:

Puget Sound bagpipes.

   A Cancun kindergarten.

Rain in New York City.

   Buenos Aires birds.

Did Borges walk in the company of the ancestors of these birds?

"What kind of bird are you?" [Borges was] asked.

"I am the bird egg, in its Buenos Aires nest, unhatched, gladly unseen by anyone with discrimination, and I emphatically hope it will stay that way!"

[Update:
Link repaired.]