I had been through Beaumont twice before when going from Houston to Louisiana. This time I needed to actually stop in the town to photograph the campus signs at Lamar University.

Just before being in this town I met a long-ago former co-worker who moved to Houston in 2006. We met at a small cafe called Ranch Hand Cafe in the small town of Cleveland TX. After a two-hour conversation, I headed on to Lamar University then on into Louisiana.