Thanks for all the advice on this topic.  A bunch of really good ideas.  Someone even said to find a person to do our reverse trip and drive our car up and I remember thinking, how do I do that.  So Intrepid Camper really shocked me with this offer to drive our vehcile up to Canada as the timing works for her and she wanted to do a trip like this.  Thank you too I/C and we are excited to be helping you do a really cool trip in reverse of ours.  I'll post our route when we get it figured out in case our paths cross, but I think we will be west of where you plan on going. 

A rough draft of our trip will be up through Basswood/McIntyre/Brent/Comnee/Delahey/Camel/Sturgeon/and out at Nym.

Mav