Shreveport

Went to Shreveport with some friends for Memorial Day weekend. It was me, a family friend from Austin (who lives in Dallas now), a co-worker, and the co-worker's friend from high school.

Besides losing a lot of money, it was a pretty fun trip. Mostly because I had never heard of Shreveport until I moved here, I was expecting a sketchier version of Las Vegas, but the majority of the casinos were actually relatively decent.

I don't think it's worth a return visit (unless some great new casino opens up or there's some event happening there) mostly because the city has nothing else to offer besides gambling. I also didn't like the fact that the casinos were spread out across three different exits from the highway.

So, if you wanted to go from one casino to another, you'd actually have to get back on the highway and then exit again.

I came up with a great idea to solve this hassle: "boat taxis" between casinos. Apparantly, all the casinos in Shreveport are on riverboats, so this plan is similar to the monorail service in Las Vegas.

The casinos could collectively fund the taxi service, and the company operating it could be bankin'.