I stopped calling my pack a Bug Out Bag (BOB). Its actually a Get Home Bag (GHB). It would be almost logistically impossible to bug out long term unless you have a fully stocked, self-sufficient ranch or farm waiting for you. +10 to ar15_dude for his post. Cody Lundin's books are a great example. Even he says a long term "camping trip" bug out plan is unsustainable. This guy lived in a friggin' teepee for YEARS.
There is a psychology to the Home this thread has not addressed. Imagine your wife and 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 year old after about 3 days without a shower, a hot meal or meaningful sleep. Even hardened soldiers get home-sick. Home is primary, unless there is no more home.
Well, being that I live in the Indy metro area.... I would leave as soon as the SHTF and head south to a more wooded and secluded area. The problem is: Over a million people in the Indy metro area + panic + food crisis + water crisis + vandalism + gangs= GTFO
I plan on bugging out as soon as it starts. My in-laws have a home with all the smaller 3x2 windows near the ceiling and only two large windows we need to deal with. They have their own well that I have ready to switch to solar. They have their own septic system. They live on 8 acres in the country with three wooded. They have a wood burning furnace as backup, and they have everything paid off. As a bonus, my mother-in-law is a certified Master Gardener.
So I will be bugging in.
I would stay put. Too much stuff to carry and too much unknown. I have two younger kids(10yr and 7Yr) in the house so moving could be a problem with short legs. And lack of good bug out location.
The goal is to have 5-6 weeks of supplies, guns for all family members (teaching boys to shoot .22), and getting lumber to barricade with.
After supplies get low, pack up what is left in the SUV and head south. By then it should thin out and be safer to travel.
Dittos on the appleseed Training, we had 22 shooters on the line last week,from 7
to 55[me] learned a lot....