Gringos Without a Car — An ecological decision pays off in cultural literacy

Yellow taxi Oaxaca

When we first began staying for months at a time in our pueblo, we began querying how to lease or buy a used car…but Oaxaca is already choking on pollution and congestion. It doesn’t need one more car. More importantly, we are gaining insight into the culture via the taxi drivers.

Director, producer of documentary films for PBS, features for NPR, author "Forbidden Fruit - 1980 Beijing," articles for Washington Post, Mother Jones, & more

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Gail Pellett

Gail Pellett

Director, producer of documentary films for PBS, features for NPR, author "Forbidden Fruit - 1980 Beijing," articles for Washington Post, Mother Jones, & more

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