To best understand any idea of progress, we have to fully understand the history, precedence, and past, and therefore the "priori", or the RULES OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A GREAT BUG-OUT VEHICLE, and merge the understanding in an innate AND very real way.
The phrase Bug-Out might be new, a label on the SEO, but Exodus, Migration, Fleeing, being unexpectedly displaced due to environment, flooding, fires, war, economic distress, plagues, or BP DeepWater Toxic rains is nothing new... well that is the toxic rains of a 2,000-mile radius due to gm-petrol-microbe is new, but the concept of getting out of Dodge isn't, what we think now however is being prepared to move at a moments notice is an awareness of such catastrophic man-made events.
Shoes, a great pair of shoes, and a few changes of socks.
a. Thousands of Syrian refugees walk from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, June 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis). b. Syria-Iraq Border, August 2023 New York Times. c. "Elvis's [perfect fit] Actual Shoes", Zombieland: Double-Tap (2019)
So first off, a fantastic pair of shoes has always been the most important step of preparedness, especially in the elopement of any significant distance or active lifestyle they are an absolute necessity. I with my search for years trying to be able to walk after chronic tendon dysfunction, and my podiatrist, recommends Hoka One One Boots as the best arch support (no joke in hard surface walks if you are following a road instead of wading through overgrown thickets), as well as several socks.
An average walk at a comfortable pace is 3+ miles per hour, and a person might be capable of walking 25 miles per day. But don't kid yourself that you could simply start at 25 miles a day, even unburdened. Speaking from experience a fit soldier training with a 40lb ruck can march 15 miles in a few hours, but you're usually going to be all in exhausted, taking it in legs with months of condition yes, but if starting from the typical 4 miles a day a very active modern person might wall, it'll be harder before it gets easier as your muscles have to reform to the takes that humans were designed for. Train, it's a great exercise hiking get in touch with nature, and take an edible plants herb book along with your for that excuse for a break that your ego and your survival skills with thank you for.
PRO TIP: Taking care of your feet is ALL-IMPORTANT. Great shoes are hard to find and take care of, and getting your shoes/boots wet is going to destroy both your shoes and will harm your feet. So, in your bug-out back you'll have to have water-wading shoes or go barefoot and brave whatever broken glass is on the bottom of that water. Keep your shoes and socks high and dry at all times.
2. The Mighty Horse, of course.
a. Equus magazine, FEBRUARY 23, 2023. b. Black Knight of Unknown Origin. c. Verdine gitane en Grande-Bretagne scan of historic postcard of Unknown Origin, NOTE BONO the Clydesdale are huge.
Without a doubt, the horse made the populations of the world today, from being the Calvary to the Westward Covered Wagons of America, the central and admired quadruped pillar of strength and speed of both Gypsy wagons to the best friend of Mongolians. Capable of 30 to 55 mph if you've a racehorse. Feeds on grass and water, at a steady walk can travel 25 to 35 miles per day, the wagon anywhere from 8 to 20 miles per day. Most importantly the horse fully fits in with the Rules of Bug-Out Vehicles, that it's not dependent on commodities, and the added bonus if you get a stallion and a mare together we might have a filly in 9 months, and that horse can carry that weight that you can't, and make the same milage with you walking it, if it doesn't get away from you with your entire bug-out bag that you've packed way too much in.
If riding the horse also offers that 30 miles per hour, whereas an average human can only run about 6 miles per hour, in case rapid short-distance movement is desirable.
You may wonder. The horse and the human cover about the same distance in a day? Yes, one of the physical reasons humans became dominant as hunters is that we have nearly a unique cooling system that other mammals lack. We've ~2–4 million eccrine sweat glands with 100% of our skin capable of immense cooling power, whereby a fur-covered beast might only sweat or evaporate from tongues, noses, paws and the like. A horse, dogs must be a pace where it can cool itself, and have plenty of water immediately whereas a human only has to worry about dehydration and weary, an animal ran past it's heat limit will die, the shortcut to Neanderthalic hunting, simply wear the herd down till they can't outrun any longer. Horses have which is actually high for an animal as equine sweat glands are densely packed in horse skin (810 glands per cm2), big dogs, for instance, have is about half the daily distance of 12.5 to 15 miles per day only if they've shade and water though as eccrine glands are nose and footpads only.
So if following nature, you can put about as much distance on horseback as you can if very fit, but weary each day, less if keeping up with dogs which are wonderful bug out companions as they can keep watch while you sleep, which could be all-important, 10 to 15 miles a day as a healthy constitutional.
Also, the horse doesn't need roads, those packed with traffic, or inoperable as running out of gas while in traffic, needing to move etc.
Key to a nomadic comfortable life for entire families for the millennium, both very real and honorary position goes to the Horse.
3. The Bicycle, the technology that doubled a human's distance in a day.
a. the historic cycle linked in frog on a bike metaphor June 29, 2020 b. Pole Bicycles, Finland 2023 c. The Aostirmotor foldable electric bike 300 lb capacity, max speed 28 mph, distance 15 to 20 miles per charge.
Undoubtedly the bicycle is a wonderful low-impact way to build your cardio. I have a stationary bike as I suffer from plantar fasciitis from drinking BP Deepwater Arsenic Rain water that keeps me from walking far, but I can bike at 20 mph and about 10 to 20 miles in a regular afternoon (400 to 800 calories), mind you it is wearing on the muscles, I've been at it a month and 500 miles so far, but before my feet were constantly inflamed I was a very good athlete. But if you want a training bug-out vehicle, and are city bound without the ranch, the bike is the way (wear a mask to keep exhaust, dust, mud out).
To bravely bike away means you've doubled the speed of any footbound travelers and taken advantage of the humans' ability to perspire and therefore endurance.
The average person on a level surface can cycle about 10-14 mph and travel between 40 and 50 miles if you take it steady and take breaks. So we've doubled the distance of walking or even horseback riding (though not as fast in the sprint), the serious athletes advantage bug out vehicle in the event roads are blocked or have to be avoided.
The electric bike has less of a range if ridden on charge only, and has to be recharged, and will be a bit heavier for the batteries and motor but the charge will add capability of the cyclist for 60 miles per day if recharged, then slow you down. While carrying solar panels will add to your weight, and will have to take a day to recharge it borders on dependency. Again look at the priori of what are the best attributes of a bug-out vehicle to see why the necromancy of petrol can't be considered among bug-out vehicles such as sustainability. Petrol goes to the war wagons that have to enter conflict for fuel.
If looking for a bug-out bike take a careful review of load limits, such as how much you think you have to carry on your bug-out backpack. 80 kilograms? Plus water? The bicycle is the superior off-road bug-out vehicle, relatively silent running, accesses terrain unmanageable to any other wheeled vehicle, and can be carried or ford a river pulled on a rope for instance. The bicycle is human-powered so as long as we are well, it meets the criteria of what constitutes a great bug-out vehicle.
Military or not, Preparedness includes physical training/conditioning. You work indoors, on the phone, have training videos or simply want to jam in comfort to videos while you work out, the stationary bike is a fantastic addition to your home gym, with minimal impact on your health, and is a top rating with a few weights. I've a fold-away stationary bike rated for 300lb that I use every day with upper body elastic training, great for recovering from injuries as well. Else get your bug-out bike, electric or not, a foldable bike that fits in your e-bugout-v trunk, and will be all you have besides shoes if depending on any type of Petrol, which brings us to:
4. Horseless Wagon, which brings us to our modern bug-out vehicle you're shopping for.
a. the Model-T Ford. b. Tesla Electric Truck/Car c. The Aptera
Petrol vehicles don't even make the class of what makes a good bug-out vehicle, no matter how brainwashed by the roar of dinosaur necromancy that sends a wagon screaming across the landscape, not sustainable in any way. Gas or Deisel, see through the hype. Remember May of 2021, when just the news of the pipeline hack had Biden begging people not to hoard gas? Wasn't even hoarding, the gas stations even in rural America were drained and out of gas within hours, and the shortage where NO PETROL AVAILABLE lasted for days.
The capacity of fuel stations doesn't even match the first few hours of people filling their tanks (not even hoarding, simply topping off), so wake up... petrol won't help, a short jag and an abandoned vehicle, and your footing it like the refugees above in any real crises. Renewable power from solar will take you off the initial civil unrest, as the fools depending on gas like ninnies are blowing each other away for empty tanks, competing with whatever national guard guys have actual tanks (speaking as a former NG Calvary officer, yeah, any sensible person must know you won't be able to count on petrol.)
DO NOT BE ONE OF THOSE UNTHINKING HYPE CONFUSED PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MISTAKE WAR WAGONS FOR BUG-OUT VEHICLES. A WAR WAGON IS A SEIGE MENTALITY (THE ARMY TAKES AND HOLDS LAND), AND BUG-OUT IS GETTING SOME DISTANCE FROM THOSE CONFLICTS WHERE A TRAINED ARMY REQUIRES PETROL TO MOVE ARMOR.
WHO HAS GAS DURING A WIDESPREAD CRISIS? NOT YOU! 'NUFF SAID?
Remember the Rules of Best Bug out Vehicles? Sustainability, renewability, an advantage in the necessities, and then other tactical advantages such as silent running. The horseless wagon, or in our modern vernacular the E.V. (Electronic Vehicle) is the best bug-out vehicle for those us of carrying comfort or carrying those of us needing aid.
Gas cars are simply NOVA, no go, and will be blocking the highways as dead weight as the gas logistics will be among the first commodities not to be had during any widespread crisis, happening through modern times again and again.
So using our power of priori, we've vastly simplified our Best-Bug-Out Powered Vehicle Selection to one of two selections:
The Telsa, that lovely and disruptive technology, that in its favor is a very dependable vehicle and to press the point a BIO-HAZARD setting where the air is 99.999% purified by a HEPA filtration system sets the progenitor apart from all other electric, which I've tested, and blows hard with a positive air pressure approach that top-end hazmat suits use. It can reach 60 mph in 2 to 3 seconds and has about a 400-mile range. Admittedly the vehicle you want if there is expected fallout, biologicals, airborne hazards, and gas clouds. (Draw Back? The Tesla requires an immense amount of power to recharge, requiring industrial solar panels which will take up a lion's share of its carriage capacity, which will mean days down to recharge for a few hundred). The Telsa is that short-range domination, then lots of intermittent stops though the electric grid is far superior in dependability to the logistics of petrol. The Telsa Truck might start to gain to first, especially if it can push the gasoline vehicles off the road.
The Aptera, an AI-designed vehicle for two (and room for 6 to 8 natives in the back with straps), 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds. Lightweight AI-age Material Sandwich Technologies and the AI are also aerodynamically designed the Aptera has a range of 1,000 miles on a single charge, and thoughtfully the solar panels are built onto the Aptera, which will charge the Aptera for an additional 40 miles per day, EVEN WHILE YOU DRIVE IT. So, if used daily, in normal life, you'll never need a gas station or perhaps even a charging station ever again.
I may love Elon Musk Magus work, and if I were to be a taxi-driver the Tesla it's a great side hustle even for UberBlack or UberGreen which is a step to UberBlack, and if you've the time and the money ($100k)
The logic of my NA&ME [Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering] weighted scientific method of advanced vehicle selection, which remember includes in every prepper type tech included in our priori, is it an everyday improvement on life, commerce and general usefulness, and an unprecedented 1,000-mile range with built-in renewable energy that charges even while you drive, which means in commute, or UberFood, or say the courier company I had in Santa Barbara a huge commercially viable dominance over the competition, The Aptera ($30k) is what every home needs in the modern world the Apex, Aptera Solar-Powered Wingless Flight:
The Solar Powered Aptera is the BEST Bug Out Vehicle of 2023.
Did we mention the Aptera comes with off-road, camping, and pet options? If the Biohazard obstacle is a thing, your going to need m99 masks and a hazmat suit to clear the traffic as your 2nd and 3rd has to push cars off the road, while the Aptera recharges powered by the sun as it sits or drives.
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