Thinking About a Mississippi River Cruise? There’s One Big ‘If.’

Tom Trovato and his wife, Trish, paid more than $20,000 and waited two years to experience Viking’s inaugural cruise up the Mississippi River. Leaving in September 2022, it was supposed be a two-week excursion from New Orleans to St. Paul, Minn., a trip of some 1,800 miles.They never got past Memphis.Low water levels, caused by drought, narrowed the river’s main shipping channel to allow only one-way traffic,…