Why You Need to Prepare Your Mindset
This article’s purpose is to provide you with a framework of ideas for self-assessment. The piece is Part I of two parts. It is one of the U.S. Army’s Principles of Leadership to know yourself and seek self-improvement. This is rooted in a principle...
Your Bike Is The Best Bug Out Vehicle?
When the time comes that I need to leave my suburban fortress, I think I’m leaving the SUV behind. I have a mountain bike and that’s all I think I’ll need for a short-term disaster situation. How about you?
Bikes offer numerous advantages over automobile...
10 Prepping Items You Can Buy at the Salvation Army
I have to confess, I don’t normally think of the Salvation Army as one of my top prepping stores. I’ve shopped for prepping equipment and supplies at a lot of different places through the years. Even so, I’d kind of forgotten about the Salvation...
Turn Your 72 hours BOB into 7 Days Survival Kit
Turning your 72-hour bag into a 7-day survival kit is more than feasible, but doing so in an organized manner is essential if you want to make sure the bag won’t be too heavy to carry.
Before you begin making a checklist of items to...
6 Items To Carry If There Are Protests In Your State
The face of downtown Richmond Virginia has changed radically. There was a point in my life where I crossed Monument Avenue every single day on my way to work. I haven’t been up there since the riots and protests.
The city has been put on...
How to Plan The Perfect Bug-Out Location
This piece is meant to stimulate thought and action toward having a place to retreat to if the time comes. I know everybody is going to defend their piece of land to the death when the SHTF. How about when the SHTF in another...
