Survival Cooking With Aluminum Foil

by suburban | Jul 16, 2010 | Cooking, Improvised Gear, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I always car­ry alu­minum foil.  In fact, in my Altoids kit there are two square feet of alu­minum foil.  I car­ry it because if I need a makeshift bowl or need to cook some­thing I have what I need to do the job, and can pos­si­bly reuse it if I had to.... Read more

The Best Commuting Backpack I Have Owned.

by suburban | Jun 30, 2010 | Bug Out, EDC, Gear, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Liv­ing in the sub­urbs, and com­mut­ing into NYC, you would think is easy.  It is, but it can also be a cum­ber­some task when you are schlep­ping a note­book, lap­top, file fold­ers, and EDC every day.  I also trav­el nation­al­ly quite a bit on... Read more

My Business Travel Preparedness Kit

by suburban | Jun 25, 2010 | EDC, Gear, Preparedness, Urban Survival

This is a mod­i­fied busi­ness trav­el kit.  I have post­ed about my trav­el car­ry before, and it rou­tine­ly changes.  Today, I put in the lug­gage that I check at the air­line, what you see in the pic­ture to the left. I just feel bet­ter when trav­el­ing... Read more

JWR’s post on the Survival Blog: A Practical, Full Spectrum Suburban Survival Plan

by suburban | May 9, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survivalism

Here is a great article/blog post from James Wes­ley Rawles called A Prac­ti­cal, Full Spec­trum Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Plan. (This blog post is no longer avail­able on survivalblog.com. Read more

Bugging in or being prepared to go nowhere fast.

by suburban | Apr 23, 2010 | Energy, Food, Preparedness, Shelter, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Water

So along the way over the past cou­ple of months of cre­at­ing prepa­ra­tions for tragedy and bug­ging out to a fall­back point, I real­ized that I am unpre­pared if I am here, and there is a weath­er or oth­er issue.  What am I going to do if some­thing as... Read more