The Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week: The things we don’t think of

5) Learn to read a map.

Can you read a map? Oh, I know, I know: “Who needs a map when you can get Google Maps on your phone?” Well, let me ask you something: How would you navigate if you had no signal, or no battery…or no phone?!

Since this is not only likely, but, inevitable in a zombie apocalypse, it would be extremely conducive to your survival to have and learn how to read a map. In fact, if you don’t have maps to the places you may need to get to, I think it would be prudent to use some of your devices to print up maps from Google or wherever you prefer before they become paperweights.

Once you have maps of your area and maps to places to might go to escape the dead or rescue friends/relatives, study them, study them for as long as it takes until you could sleepwalk to your destinations, you’d know the map so well.

If you don’t possess this skill once the outbreak hits, you’ll be left, quite literally, lost, with little more than memories of what the map looked like on your phone before its signal or battery quit…assuming you understood the map at all.

Maps have existed for thousands of years, and have helped everyone from the greatest explorers to the lowliest peasants find their way around and, if you hope to stay away from and ahead of the undead, maps are something you had best get familiarized with, and quick.