It's too soon to go North yet.

No one should go from the soft climate of the semi-tropics to the Northern or Middle States until mild weather has fairly set in there.

And that will not happen for a month yet.
"Now, this is my plan.

Let us all take a leisurely trip homeward by the way of Mobile, and New Orleans and the Mississippi River.

This will be just the season, and we shall be just the party.