They seldom see tourists in Long Xuyen. And so we drew a crowd of children wherever we walked in this Mekong River town. In this image, pbase artist Tim May catches me doing my best Pied Piper impersonation. No matter where we walked in this neighborhood of Long Xuyen, groups of laughing children followed us. They were fascinated with my camera, and at one point we must have had twenty kids watching, and commenting upon, our every move. None of them asked us for money, and none tried to sell us trinkets, as children did in other Vietnamese cities. All they wanted to do was to follow us, watch us, laugh at us and with us. To these children, I must have like an absurd visitor from another planet, making pictures of ordinary things they all took for granted. Seeing myself here as they must have seen me, I’d have to agree.