try this
http://www.saratogatradingcompany.com/

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Courtney Hook" <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag

> Geez, jake, I never heard that!! I better get my sorry butt over to the
> SaveOn foods and buy up some flour sugar and rice, canola oil, and a
buncha
> canned goods! Thanks bud!
> Courtney
> Nanaimo, BC (smack in the middle of V.I.!!)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jake de Villiers" <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:17 PM
> Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag
>
>
> > Interesting that you ask this today.
> >
> > The morning radio said that there has been increased seismic activity
> > along
> > the fault line under Vancouver Island in the last 48 hours and that we
> > might
> > be in for an "Event" in the next two weeks.
> >
> > No fun at all.
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > On 2/2/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> 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?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> > 1984 Vanagon GL
> > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com