by suburban | Aug 30, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, suburban survival, Urban Survival
A couple weekends ago I tested a bug out route (via vehicle) to a point that intersects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three other routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this intersection point “Point B.” I wanted to test the following:...                                                                                                            Read more 
                        
                                                
                                                            
                                    
                                
                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                             by suburban | Aug 24, 2010 | Cooking, Food, General
I, like many others in our country, are VERY accustomed to just getting in the car, going to the grocery store and picking up our food for the week.  Honestly, I grew up this way.  While many of my friends and their families ran farms, I was a...                                                                                                            Read more 
                        
                                                
                                                            
                                    
                                
                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                             by suburban | Aug 2, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Gardening, Guns & Weapons, Homesteading, Hunting, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival
This is a thought that hit me this weekend as I was surfing the Web for survival topics so I could learn something new.  I was looking up Bug Out Locations, and it hit me that, we (I) discuss prepping your primary home with preps primarily for...                                                                                                            Read more 
                        
                                                
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                             by suburban | Jul 22, 2010 | Bug Out Location, Economy, Self Reliance
Check this out from SHTF.  Thought it should be posted for all: Prominent Hedge Fund Manager’s Idaho Ranch: “It would be a place you could hole up in” Here is the flaw I see with the NYC financial elite building out BOLs anywhere.  These people have...                                                                                                            Read more 
                        
                                                
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                             by suburban | Jul 20, 2010 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, DIY, Fire, Preparedness
I have not made any yet, but plan on it in short order.   Charcloth looks like it is an easy way to get an ember burning so that you can start a...                                                                                                            Read more