Get home bag

Like @Mindgrinder I am more of a minimalist but my bag goes with me. My get home bag is my everyday carry. I get out of the car to go into the office, it goes with me. I don't take it into the grocery store but it is in the car. Always with me. I do not go more then 30-40 miles from my home. Please note in my car is a small tub with extra "stuff" depending on the circumstance that is causing me to walk home I can grab some stuff from the tub. My bag is a Jansport and it is purple, I look like a normal Mom with a backpack, but the pack is one of their outdoor models that has all the pockets and has the area for a water system. This is the style I carry- JanSport Tulare Backpack - 2050cu in | Backcountry.com

Most would look at my bag and just think Mom with stuff hanging off. But if you look there is a compass, flash light, Sparkie fire starter plus a few extra locking clips.

 

Sheesh...I really AM surrounded by OLD dudes....
4 days to walk 40 clicks? Maybe if you're b-lining through the bush...I'm thinking day 1 SHTF while I'm at work...i'd still be walking straight down the road or railway lines with no fear to get home.
If you're planning this sorta pace, add a tarp, paracord, lifestraw and a whole box of energy bars.
My office is almost exactly 50km (not miles) from my door....i smoke 2 packs a day...im 99% sure I could walk it quite easily in a day....the only advantage I got is that I walk a LOT as it is....around 6km/day (3 each way) in the summer to catch my commuter train into the city.

 

I have 17 miles to get home... I plan on 3 days... I could possibly make it in one long day if everything works out however most of the way has swamp streams and fields/woods .. I plan on the worst and hope for the best... I try to be realistic in my planning... if I can take the roads it's no problem... if not thing just got worse...

 

I'm taking one of the boats, Pretty sure I can get to within 5 miles of La Masion

 

In place.

I'll be doing a perimeter watch, that means I will most likely be inside of that perimeter by 100 feet or more. Depends on the time of year and the cover.

Wife will be on the radio/phone and provide what ever support she can.

First move is to get all the cattle in one small pasture.

Nights will be spent on guard, in a FOP. Days will be, hopefully, on watch from the look out tower.

No Port and Starboard just cat naps and a whole lot of tired till it feels safe or until backup arrives.

20 miles a day is the most I see me doing and that would be a push.

 

I have what I think is even better...

One of the "option items" in the car stuff now is a used jogging stroller that I got off Craig's List for $20. Holds a lot and can be configured to carry just about anything. It also folds up and has quick release wheels that make it store easily even in the back of the Jeep.

One of the other options, since I am rarely far from my river is a blow up kayak and foot pump...but that isn't so good unless you live close to a river.

 

its easy even I do this!!!!!
thanks guys

 

For me it's not the miles per day. A lot of time will be spent just observing what I'm walking into. Careful and slow movements toward my goal.I do not want to miss the ones hiding that are up to no good. Stalk the stalkers in order to evade a confrontation is usually the safest. If it four or five days to get home so be it. It all depends on terrain,weather and season, and number of alerts I must pay attention to. Besides I couldn't do forty miles a day shank's mare with gear even on a smooth flat highway at my age.

 

Getting there on time means getting there alive without any one tailing you to your family.

 

how about your car breaks down your 30 miles from home with no cell signal .. Are we still walking home doing duck and roles acting like we are back in kambotia???

Are there any situations out there that we are not planing on shooting someone and just have a more realisitic SHTF situation ?
For Christ sake !!! or yall got that coverd??

 

All kinds of pie in the sky events that could happen, but this is about a Get Home Bag, not a Get Home Bang.

 

thank you brokor .... finaly we agree!!!!
but the post does say no cell phone signal ...
And judging from where 90% of yall claim to live this is very possible so give me credit back for 45% of my post..LOL
Thanks

 

I suppose there might be some substance here if it were only coherent...

 

Equip and prepare for the worst case will make the least case a near walk in the park. And no I have never done "duck & rolls" in Kambotia? I don't think I even slept there last night. This is Survival monkey.

 

I live 7-10 minutes from where my main work site is and I have one in my company truck I can range on company business over three states.