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Article: Cruising America: small vessels offer smooth sailing on coastal passages and heartland rivers.
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- Travel America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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As your luxury hotel barge approaches Cairo, Illinois, all passengers are out on deck to watch the meeting of waters at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Then the boat travels north en route to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the largest Mississippi River town between Memphis and St. Louis. Passing cornfields, rocky bluffs, and woods inhabited by deer, the 198-guest River Explorer shares Ol' Man River with pleasure boats and barges piled with jet-black coal.
Operated by New Orleans-based RiverBarge Excursion Lines, the River Explorer is one of a growing number of overnight cruise vessels that ply America's inland and coastal waters, spotlighting places ...