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Don’t be a Survival Tourist
Five years ago Dan and Shayna Cohen took early retirement to live off the grid in the wilderness of Catron County, New Mexico. They are looking for like-minded people to join them on their 40 acre ranch which can be seen at www.placeofrefuge2012.com. They wrote this heads up about “Survivalist Tourists”.
We’ve met more posers or what my son likes to call “survival tourists” than anything else. By this we mean those who know something bad is about to happen and think that if they do a few mundane tasks, it will be a panacea for all their worries.
Most spend money on the strangest things, like a solar cooker and have no storage foods, or buy a diesel 4X4 that cost as much as a house and have nothing else other than a rusty .22 calibre rifle and a tactical rifle sling.
We believe that people do things like this because it’s a way of doing something that does not require them to take their foot off home plate.
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September 22, 2010
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