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The proposal is forty seconds. Plan the other four hours.

Ring size, weather backups, the box that ruins your jacket, and the twenty minutes after she says yes.

GuideSurvival & Self-DefenseWes DunbarSep 23, 20267 min

Stay Put and Get Found When a Day Hike Turns Into a Night

The unplanned night outdoors is survivable and usually boring. What kills people is walking after dark, and the fix costs about sixty dollars.

Protect the Children5 min

What Child Trafficking In America Actually Looks Like

Travel6 min

Mount Rushmore takes ninety minutes. Plan the other six days.

GuideSurvival & Self-DefenseWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

PLB or satellite messenger, which one belongs in your pack

One is a government rescue signal with no monthly bill. The other texts your wife that you're just running late. They're not the same purchase.

GuideProtect the ChildrenNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

The warning signs that matter, and the ones that are just being 14

Most of what scares parents is ordinary adolescence. A short list of things isn't, and those are the ones worth your attention.

Home6 min

Your Wet Basement Starts On The Roof

Survival & Self-Defense6 min

What to do in the first hour you're lost in the woods

GuideProtect the ChildrenJosh HalloranSep 23, 20266 min

Why the white van myth leaves kids unprotected

The danger to most children isn't a stranger in a parking lot. It's someone with access, and that changes what you should actually be watching.

GuideHomeWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The Mold You Can Scrub and the Mold That Needs a Pro

Ten square feet is the line most people have never heard of. Cross it wrong and you turn a Saturday job into a five-figure one.

Survival & Self-Defense5 min

Take the free Stop the Bleed class before you need it

Protect the Children6 min

The Signs a Teacher Sees Before Anyone Else Does

GuideDatingMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

Introducing her to your people without making it an audition

Friends first, family second, and never at Christmas. How to run the introduction so she's welcomed instead of interviewed.

GuideSurvival & Self-DefenseWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The Wild Plants Worth Learning and the Ones That Kill

Foraging won't feed you in an emergency, but six plants will keep your morale up and one family of look-alikes will end your trip for good.

Travel5 min

The cheap island is the big one, and the cheap month is October

Dating6 min

Long Distance Only Works If Somebody's Moving

GuideSurvival & Self-DefenseWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The tourniquet everyone should carry, and how to use it

Bleeding control is a five-minute skill with a thirty-dollar price tag, and most people carry neither the gear nor the training.

Travel6 min read

Pick the coast by the water, not the pictures

Gulf or Atlantic, the surf decides whether your kids have a great week or you spend it hauling a crying four-year-old out of the shore break.

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