Our Mississippi voyage had been originally been slated to start near the mouth of the river in the “Big-EZ(ee)” as New Orleans is “affectionately” known - when we booked this trip more than three years ago!! However years of lower than average rainfall has meant that water levels in the river are at record lows. This has impacted our voyage in a number of different ways - starting with embarkation, now a little up river in Baton Rouge rather than in New Orleans

So we just spend an evening and a short night in the French Quarter before being bussed to Baton Rouge