Booth escape route north

[SSlater]

Jerry. I won't argue that Booth "really" wanted to go North, after establishing a route south. I don't know. ButIF that was the plan, the presence of many Blue Suits in the near proximity, FORCED him south. There is some credence to your suggestion, when we evaluate Booth's activities from Mudd's house south. It was a mish-mash, at best. The Secret Line was not expecting him. That showed the clearest at the Potomac. Cawood, Harbin, Grymes, Biden - No one there to help. The best that Jones could do was to send him to a TREE (or a BRIGE, if you choose.) and HOPE that someone would find him. Or ask Quesenberry - "She might help you". That wasn't how the Secret Line worked. Crossing the Potomac was pure ad-lib.
Can anyone envision what route North, Booth might use. Who? What? When/ Where? There was no "Secret Line" north of Washington. The usual route North was a train from Washington to Baltimore (B&O RR), change trains in Baltimore, to Philly, change in Philly, trains in New Jersey to New York, change trains in NY to Montreal.(Not to mention the various Ferry boat rides, along the way.
I don't see where he would intercept that route by going east into Maryland. However, the route south was the route he knew, was the shortest and safest to get him into "friendly" country, soonest.
Crank this into your thinking. Thomas Nelson Conrad, a known double agent, and Fanny Dade, a double agent, were arrested in King George about April 17, and taken to L. C. Baker and Baker had his people down here the next day +/-, and was on the trail of the Assassin. It may have been that Booth was actually on his own, (even Mosby and others did not know where he was.) This suggests that Booth was "sold out". He did not get the help he wanted - needed. If the South couldn't find him, to help him, then saw to it that he is killed before he is caught. (He was a problem to both sides.)
(I won't be home for the next week, so I won't be available to participate in any debate, but I can catch up after that,)

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PS. I forgot to mention, the blockade was no problem to getting out of the South. There was a safe route through Texas to Mexico, and the rest of the world. That is the route that Jacob Thompson was expected to use coming home from Canada. (suggested and praised, by Benjamin) But Thompson didn't come home, he went to Europe for two years. (Now I am rambling< UGH!)