{"id":9797,"date":"2025-12-20T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:49:08","slug":"new-orleans-the-start-of-our-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2025\/12\/20\/new-orleans-the-start-of-our-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans The start of our trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, we are starting our cruise on the anniversary of a decision in 1803 to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9811 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2026\/04\/20251220_162505-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>purchase Louisiana.\u00a0 Americans prepared to purchase the port of New Orleans for $10 million wound up being offered the whole of Louisiana for $15 million.\u00a0 Time to get on board and explore the Mississippi River to Vicksburg on the Viking Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-handler-api.viking.com\/ew0KICAgICAgICAgICJidWNrZXQiOiAiaHR0cHM6Ly9hZW0tcHJvZC1wdWJsaXNoLnZpa2luZy5jb20iLA0KICAgICAgICAgICJrZXkiOiAiY29udGVudC9kYW0vdmlraW5nY3J1aXNlcy9lbi9tYWdub2xpYS1pbWFnZXMvcml2ZXIvbWFwcy9uZXctb3JsZWFucy1hbmQtc291dGhlcm4tY2hhcm1zLzIwMjRfTmV3X09ybGVhbnNfYW5kX1NvdXRoZXJuX0NoYXJtc18xNDAwXzJ4MS5wbmciLA0KICAgICAgICAgICJlZGl0cyI6IHsNCiAgICAgICAgICAgICJyZXNpemUiOiB7DQogICAgICAgICAgICAgICJ3aWR0aCI6IDE0MDAsDQogICAgICAgICAgICAgICJoZWlnaHQiOiBudWxsLA0KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAiZml0IjogImluc2lkZSIsDQogICAgICAgICAgICAgICJvcHRpb25zIjogew0KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAid2l0aG91dEVubGFyZ2VtZW50IiA6IHRydWUNCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgfQ0KICAgICAgICAgICAgfSwNCgkgICAgICAidG9Gb3JtYXQiOiAid2VicCINCiAgICAgICAgICB9DQogICAgICAgIH0=\" alt=\"Map of New Orleans &amp; Southern Charms itinerary\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 20, 2025 Ironically, we are starting our cruise on the anniversary of a decision in 1803 to purchase Louisiana.\u00a0 Americans prepared to purchase the port of New Orleans for $10 million wound up being offered the whole of Louisiana for $15 million.\u00a0 Time to get on board and explore the Mississippi River to Vicksburg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2025\/12\/20\/new-orleans-the-start-of-our-trip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Orleans The start of our trip&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-on-the-lower-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}