Location: Baja California, Mexico

One summer I did a drive from California to Cabo San Lucas with a friend, stopping along the way at select locations to camp and surf.  About halfway down Baja we stopped at a frequent surf stopover, Punta Abreojos (literally, ‘Open Eyes Point’), and set up our tent for a couple of days.  The normal routine at Abreojos rarely varies: surf early before the incessant winds set upon camp and pelt you with sand and dust, make sure your cooler has both ice and beer to help you weather the long, sweltering, wind-scoured afternoons, and either bring a book or drink enough to help you get to sleep just after sunset so you can wake up early and do it all over again.  On this trip, however, I brought my 4x5 camera and eyed a few of the many rusting automotive hulks lounging near the camp.  On the second day, despite having perhps consumed a few too many barley pops (how many is a few, anyway?), I set out with my gear to an old Ford pickup cab that looked especially intriguing.  I set up my tripod behind the cab and aimed the lens through the glassless rear window.  On this shot, I did a double exposure on just a couple of negatives, because I wanted to balance the beautiful ambient light on the scene behind with my flashlight on the dashboard in front.  Blame it on the beer – I must have bumped the camera, creating a subtle double-image effect on the background, while the flashlight kept the foreground in place.  A beautifully benign error!  Hence the title, and no, it is not an endorsement to drink and drive, although it very well could have something to do with why the truck ended up here in the first place.