Would bribing you be productive? Are you a secret judge? What do puffalumps eat?
Also, just tossing "leaving from Saskatoon on the 12th" out to the world puts a strange sort of finality on my sleep-deprived tossing around of ideas that may or may not work. The Niva currently has no brakes (at all) and is 350 miles on the wrong side of Saskatoon... And we don't know what route we're taking. Or anything else yet. Doing this properly I am.
Parts just came in from Ukraine today, and I just drove 120km through a storm system that spawned at least one tornado ten miles from me and a couple funnel clouds pretty well directly overhead that I couldn't see because of the rain and hail. Hopefully they go in without a hitch. If not I'll be making the trip in my 500,000km daily-driver MJ.
I think the route I was tossing around would have us somewhere near Kalispell, MT on the night of the 12th, Kennewick, WA on the 13th, Crater Lake, OR on the 14th, and Monterey on the 15th, all locations being +/- a whole hell of a lot, obviously. Probably this would still be an attempt at direct from one point to the next, but I've also put forward the idea of hitting the coast, probably around Crescent City or Eureka. Gold Beach might be too far north to be practical, avoiding Portland was pretty big on Atomic's list of things to do for some reason. The more obvious (and direct) route would take us past Yellowstone, but would end up with us doubling back along the same corridor on the first day of the rally, so I didn't want to go that route.
Plus as my Dad would put it, the shortest path between any two points is boring.