So that was a fun solo road trip, about 1100 miles round trip, out on Sunday and back on Tuesday night. I got the best mpg's the car has ever gotten and averaged 34.5 for the trip. Good tunes, windows open almost the whole way, a quick stop at Niagara Falls because there's no good place to stop and get out of the car without paying exorbitant rates for parking, some more good tunes and a bunch of roads through places I've never been to before made for a great trip.
FWIW that part of Canada looks as much like the California, Las Vegas or NJ 'burbs as anywhere I've been. I was kind of surprised but I really had no expectations so didn't know what it was going to be like. Traffic up there sucked, the first 70 miles out of Toronto heading towards the border took about 3 hours