Wilderness Survival Help Needed
"Welcome to the Jungle Baby...your going to die!"
My wife is planning on taking me to some wild place known as the Big Apple in March. I am a little anxious as this is WAY out of my comfort zone, and I am not well versed in this style of survival. What should I be doing to prepare, what should I take, and how should I interact with all the wild ape like creatures that inhabitat this foreign land?
Visiting NY "The Big Apple"
Jason,
I have been to NY, upstate and NYC on many different occasions. I have taught survival courses in the Adirondacks many times then ventured down state to the city a few times throughout the years (pre 9/11). Post 9/11 NYC is a big brother nightmare! :eek: Flak-jacket un-friendlies everywhere. And as stated in an earlier post; security check-points EVERYWHERE!! Pre 9/11 was a real nightmare for me. I don't wear shoes. . .ever, and everywhere I went all I heard was, "sir, you must have shoes to come in here". I even had people on the street asking me "where are your shoes"? One lady offered to buy me a pair. When I told her I never wear shoes, she got this astonished and dumb-founded look on her face and asked, "how can you possibly walk around like that"? My response was, "how can you possibly walk around in those (shoes)"? I can only imagie what post 9/11 must be like?!
IMHO, the culture and history are not worth it. I much prefer the history of the Rockie Mountains, as to, any history of the east. For me, anything east of the Missouri river is not worth visiting. Been there, done that. . .not worth it! Again, this is my humble opinion.
I grew up in the east and as soon as I was old enough I moved out west and never looked back. ;)