What are the chances of booking a cruise along the lower Mississippi only to find out that others from the same county have done the same?The odds are apparently not that small.When Courtney Shofner, an independent travel agent with Traveling with Courtney, scheduled a Lower Mississippi River cruise through the American Cruise Lines, she didn’t expect to find out a day before that other residents were making the same seven day cruise on the same days and on the same boat.She booked the boat trip for herself, her parents, Sharon and Billy Shofner, retired cotton farmer and part-owner and manager ...