Where are you bugging out to?

I have looked around, spoke with other preppers and listened to a lot of plans about the bug out. That fateful day when something happens, the sky falls, and Armageddon comes over the horizon. You grab your gear and head out.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING.

Your plan must include a place to go. If you are just leaving town you will end up with everyone else who is just leaving town. IN A GOVERNMENT RELOCATION CAMP! They will take your guns, your supplies and your independence. There you will live under marshal law. They will keep you safe.....well keep you anyway.

It is much wiser to have places you can go. It is better yet to have some good trustworthy people you can go to. It is best if you can find more than one place to go. It is a good bet that you will not be able to go everywhere you want to.

When you look for a place to bug out to, consider where your friends and family live and people who belief like you do. Are any of your people within one tank of gas from your start point? Is where they are better than where you are. Consider that your home may be their bug out place.

Evaluate the travel rout to each potential refuge. Will you be able to get there if there is troubles.
1. Population between here and there. The more people in between you and your goal the less likely you will reach it.
2. Distance to destination. The longer you have to travel your chance of reaching your destination decreases.
3. Are your people already there? An empty place is up for grabs for the first person to arrive and take the high ground. Even if you own it. If there is no law your place may be their place.
4. Open land, that secluded place in the woods? Who else will be competing for this spot. I know a place about 50 miles from my home that at least two well armed groups plan to bug out to. I will not be there.
5. Leave early. The road will be quickly blocked.
5. Have a rout B, C, and D. and a place B, C, D.

 I have a planed place to evacuate to in each direction. Some sites for bugging out to are better equipped than others. Some have better people than others. I belief that if you go to a place you have people you can trust with equipment and supplies, you have a higher potential to survive trouble.You will want to have a place that is defensible, has water and can resupply or self supply. AND one that no one uninvited will be there already as an unwelcoming committee.

Remember the place you live may be the best place. Only leave if you have to.

Be sure you have a plan.