If you had to, could you be gone in 30 minutes and self sufficent for
several days?  What would you take, knowing that perhaps when you returned,
nothing would remain.  The Vanagon is a capable emergency shelter if
outfitted properly.  What would you put in that git-box?  What kind of box
would it be?  The folks in Florida had a middle of the night visitor that
flattened their lives, their fortunes but not their honor.  What's in your
bug-out bag?  Cell phone and Visa card?  Full-on-conditions urban/ex-urban
survival stuff?  Batteries for the x-box or MRE's?  Canned tuna or doritos.
Sorels or sandals?

Long ago, my friend Bill skied a last run off the back of Mount Rose Ski
Area in a fog and wound up below the last chairlift thousands of feet above
the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of date
lift ticket.  He walked out to US395 after spending a very cold night in the
trees.  Later that month, just outside a cozy ski cabin in Squaw Valley, I
tried Bill's trick and spent the night outside in the snow with just what I
would have been carrying had I been skiing.  Sobering experience.  Bill was
lucky, had the clouds gone away the temperature would have dropped
precipitously and he likely would have died of hypothermia.

So what's in YOUR Bug-out Bag?  Where would you go if you HAD to?  How would
you adapt, improvise, and overcome?