How fit are you? how old/fit are the kids? are you female? I suggest that you walk alongside of a bicycle with a small pack on your back. Kids over the age of 10 or so can carry small packs, with at least their sleeping gear a bit of food and water. Of course a whopping sized boy of 14 can carry a serious load, 30-40 lbs. Such a person can be on the other side of the bike, helping you push. The vietcong did this, thru swamps and jungles with 200+ lbs on the bicycle. If your trip will mostly be on pavement, consider having a small load in a cart behind the bicycle. Depending upon your strength and fitness, you can be pushing 100 lbs by yourself on the bike and you're likely to need every bit of that carrying capacity. if one or more of the kids has to be transported on it. Don't try to do anything in daylight, because you'll just get preyed-upon. Depending upon your strength and your area, you're likely to have to cut holes in woven wire fence, if you can't pull the bike up by a rope and lower it on the other side. Depending upon what you are fleeing, you might well be better off caching lots of food, buried in the crawlspace under your house, under the concrete of a shed someplace (busting the concrete and renewing it over your cache). I admire your spirit, but if you're an older female and the kids are small, it looks very, very bad for you if shtf. Perhaps a motorcycle, with a very quiet muffler and a trailer could be made to work. You need night vision in the worst way. The real deal starlight stuff is very expensive as in $2000. The $400 and less type does work, but anyone with a passive IR goggle will see your active IR beam like an airport beacon
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