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It might take children time to get used to these new accommodations, so even if you have the Cadillac of outhouses, think about keeping a camp toilet or a port-a-potty on hand for in-home use. If an outhouse is in your future after the fact, make sure you have a heavy-duty shovel and enough plywood, 2X4’s, roofing material, nails and screws to build one. The end of this chapter lists a link for an excellent site that has do-it-yourself instructions on building an outhouse.

Where To?

You should store both topographical and street maps in your vehicle that covers your immediate location and on to your destination point, no matter how many maps this may entail. Keep a compass in your car to navigate to your destination. Even in a worst case scenario, and you must walk part of the way to your destination, you will have the means to get there (and the reason for keeping topographical maps).

Never depend on GPS or any other digital navigational device that depends upon electricity to relay or download your coordinates. Why? Your device may be battery-run, and you may have thought ahead and put extra batteries aside, but should your GPS provider depend on electricity (and they do), with grid failure comes eventual GPS failure. GPS devices have another issue that involves terrain that is referred to as line of site. Line of site simply means data is grabbed from your GPS device and downloaded to you via a straight line from an orbiting satellite or a relay site to you, the user. Line of site does not move around corners or “dip” down between mountain ranges when you happen to be in a deep valley surrounded by a mountain range. They are also a bit temperamental about traveling through a solid mass such as a tall building. A bit of trivia: this is why your cell phone coverage is sometimes disrupted when traveling in valley or mountainous regions. Never trade a compass for GPS.