ox-pulled

The ox-pulled carts and traditional garb of the people here point a stark contrast to the highly developed Mykonos.

The peasants came out and resumed work in their paddies, the farmers went back to furrowing the hills with their ox-pulled plows.

When the transport caravan arrived at the Lujan River, however, something strange took place: the ox-pulled cart carrying the images of Our Lady would not budge.

John River, you'll be treated to rolling farmland, river ferries, a capital city and a 19th-century Loyalist village-where the way of life is portrayed behind an ox-pulled plow.

There are hulking commuter buses, ox-pulled carts stacked with chicken coops, cycle rickshaws with cooking gas cylinders strapped to the backs, silver swan-shaped marriage floats tricked out with loudspeakers and squeaky Soviet-era taxis.

Shot in what Ms. Reichardt called the “beautiful and prickly” yet grueling desert expanses of eastern Oregon, the period drama of perseverance joins a small group of families as they ford a stream and lumber along in squeaky ox-pulled wagons.