I have been exploring with just the one vehicle for awhile now with no one else to help me should something happen. I try to cover all my bases, so over the years I have picked up a few things here and there that I would need and would probably never need. I am sure we will be ok, even if someone destroys a hub and off comes the wheel too... I have a plan to get us out of there. If someone manages to bury themselves up to the frame... there is a plan also. Honestly I will have to get the x weighed again when i fit all the gear into it after we leave, because I know I may be pushing at least 500lbs extra in gear. I have even been trained in combat first aid (doubt we will ever need it).
One of the times I was at the PINS some guys I got fishing tips off of later that day were headed back home so I waved them off only to find them 7 miles later stranded with no fuel. They had over 30 miles to go and lucky for them, we decided to leave early. I had just topped off with the spare 5 gal can right before we started to leave and ended up having to figure out how to siphon it back out to give to them. Well the x has a anti siphon mesh somewhere in the fill tube and I even tried driving up a dune to allow some gas to flow into the tube with no success, not to mention it was already dark.
These guys said they would wait for me to go to a gas station and come back, but we were 30 miles from the road and the sand was super soft which would lead to at least a 2 hour wait in the dark. I told them I would figure something out and I wasn't going to leave them out there with the tide rising especially where their truck died. Then I realized I should take of the return line in the engine bay, and start the truck..... worked like a charm and i gave them 5 gallons of gas. They were extremely surprised I thought of that and so was I.
I didn't ask for anything and they kept insisting to give me what i thought was $10..... As they drove away my wife looked at the bill and it was instead a $100 bill. When i did the return line thing, they told were in amazement and would have not thought about it talk about karma. My wife says she doesn't understand how I come up with or how I react so well to emergencies or times of need. I am a thinker, and that I know