Summer travel time is coming! I love traveling with my family, but we’re cheap/frugal/poor, so we don’t usually fly anywhere, we just go places within driving distance. We do road trips more often than anything, and we’ve been doing them for a LOT of years. When I first wrote this, we also didn’t have a […]
4 Compelling Reasons to Keep Your Gas Tank More than Half Full
How full is your gas tank right now? Let me tell you a little story about me in a past life. Well, okay, it was only about 8 years ago, but I’ve learned a lot since then. We live in an area where the nearest decent shopping is 45 miles away. So shopping is an […]
Six Things to Scout Along Your Evacuation Route
Evacuations happen every year around the country for various reasons. From weather related emergencies to chemical spills to wild fire, you may be asked to evacuate your home with very little notice. Or you could decide to leave (or “bug out”) on your own if you feel things are going bad and you’d be safer […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 68: Bug Out Vehicles and the Apocabox with Creek Stewart
Episode 68: Bug Out Vehicles and the Apocabox with Creek Stewart Listen here! Want to build the perfect Bug Out Vehicle? Or maybe just get the family minivan more prepared for emergencies? Today’s guest is Creek Stewart: author, instructor, owner of Willow Haven Outdoor, and host of the survival reality show Fat Guys in the […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 60: Tips to Travel Prepared!
Episode 60: Tips to Travel Prepared! Listen here! It’s summer and we’re going places! Whether you’re headed across the country or just across town, in this episode I cover travel tips for being prepared on your way. Including travel by car and airplane and traveling with a firearm. Mentioned in the show: Garden drip system […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 40: Staying Warm and Alive in Freezing Temperatures
Episode 40: Staying Warm and Alive in Freezing Temperatures Listen here! Holy Polar Vortex, Batman! It’s cold outside! Today we’re talking easy ways to stay warm and alive in your home and your vehicle when the weather is freezing. Mentioned in the show: Cold Camping Hot Rocks 11 Trunk Essentials for Winter Driving Hand Warmers […]
Assembling a Car Emergency Kit with Printable Checklist
An emergency can strike any time. If you are away from home, you will only have what is with you to take care of yourself and your loved ones, and wouldn’t it be nice if those supplies included a well stocked car emergency kit? Depending on your lifestyle, a car emergency kit could be more […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 17: Vehicle Preparedness
Episode 17: Vehicle Preparedness Listen here! What do we need to be prepared while we’re in our vehicles? In this episode we discuss a few skills you’ll want to have plus what to stock in your vehicle emergency kit! Mentioned in the show: Vehicle Emergency Kit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the […]
Seven Times I Was Glad to Have an Emergency Kit Just Last Week
I took a short notice road trip with the kids last week. Approximately 1100 miles round trip to see some family for the holiday. Of course, my vehicle emergency kit was not removed when we packed our suitcases around it. And it’s a good thing, because even though we didn’t meet up with any zombies […]
11 Trunk Essentials for Winter Driving
With winter coming, it’s time to update and rotate the car emergency kits! For winter driving in particular, here are 11 essential survival items to have in your trunk: 1. Water. If the water is kept in a box/tote/etc. in your trunk, it actually doesn’t freeze as quickly as you might think it would. Open […]
