Ok, so if you've seen my previous blog posts, you've seen my camping/bug out trailer, and how I keep it staged and loaded with all my gear. Its basically my bugout bag, because I can hitch it to my truck almost as fast as I could grab a backpack if there were a crisis. Well after many MANY hand wringing sessions and late nights of research, I made a significant upgrade.
I had a very specific criteria. I wanted a larger trailer, but I didn't want a "project" like building out a empty equipment trailer. I wanted it to use it for camping, like a teardrop, and sleep in it, but it had to have full open access so I could easily and quickly load all my totes of gear in an evac situation. It needed to fit in my garage otherwise it was useless. You can't have bug out gear, then store it away from your primary residence where you would be bugging out from. I have been to a couple of years of RV shows looking a Popups, and all sorts of travel trailers and none of them fit the bill, then I found it. The perfect trailer, perfect, perfect, PERFECT! an Intech RV Flyer!
Its absolutely PERFECT! Well its almost perfect, but its absolutely checked of every box I had, and gave me stuff I didn't even know I wanted, and its a blank canvas for additional upgrades.
You can go to Intech's website to see all the specs if that turns you on, but IF i had a magic wand, THIS would be what I would create.
Anyway, This has improved my camping game tremendously, but just like the previous trailer, its the fact that I keep it at home, fully prepped and loaded with all my survival gear, that makes it a prep. Its a giant bug out bag! I can literally hitch up and go, and never look back. I watched family and friends in North Carolina struggle over if they should leave. You never know what way these storms will go, and the expense of an evac can be daunting to say the least. I can wait longer, to make that final call to evacuate because I've prepaid the expense. (yes, the old preping is time shifting thing again)
Ok, there are a lot more details to come, but this has been a game changer.
