Which brings me to a couple of weekends ago, Patrick and I, along with our good friends Alex and Jenna, drove just a few hours outside of town to Lake Charles, Louisiana to have ourselves an enjoyable weekend getaway at L’Auberge Lake Charles Casino & Resort. Not only that, but there are many smaller (and just as interesting) places to explore that are just a hop skip and a jump from my new hometown. So many big cities all near Houston! (Which is a wonderful thing for the travel buff in me.)

Casino Resort Lake Charles, Lake Charles.Staybridge Suites Lake Charles. I hadn’t realllllly looked at the map up close, so I wasn’t expecting Austin to be only two and half hours away, Dallas to be close to three hours and San Antonio to be just three hours, too. Lake Charles Casino Resorts: Find 990 traveller reviews, candid photos and. I guess this was due to the fact that it took about six hours to get across the state from my college town of Knoxville to my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee? Yes, Nashville was in between the two, but other than that there wasn’t too much else along the way. It has a number of casinos within a 20-ish mile radius of the town, but for the most Vegas-like experience there is something special about a duo of casinos from two national chains with resorts right on the lakefront: the Golden Nugget Lake Charles and Pinnacle’s L’Auberge Lake Charles. I was imagining vast stretches of fields and desert type landscapes stretching far between the other cities or towns surrounding Houston. Lake Charles Casino Resorts: Find 943 traveller reviews, candid photos and the top ranked casino resorts in Lake Charles on Tripadvisor.

When we moved to Texas, I was expecting to feel really far away from any other city.

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