Hi Volks,

I find that I have pretty much EVERYTHING I need to get by with a
family of 5 in the westy or in the westrailer. We prove that
regularly on summer weekends by hitting the road within an hour of
my arrival home after work. Camping got a LOT easier once the
westrailer was perfected... now we just pack clothes as required,
load up the coolers and we're good to go.

Where would I go if I had to?  I could tell you, but then I'd have to
kill you. ;-P

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
www.pottsfamily.ca

On 2-Feb-07, at 2:52 PM, Pensioner wrote:

> 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?