Fear the Walking Dead survival rule of the week: All need guidance

Fear the Walking Dead, know where you are going and how to get there

For a good chunk of this season of Fear The Walking Dead, people have been searching around for the mysterious “PADRE,” many thinking that it was a person.

We learned in the midseason finale, PADRE wasn’t a person but a place. A secret location set up by the U.S. government as a launching pad for the country to begin anew in a cataclysmic disaster (Like a zombie apocalypse, for example). This location has the resources necessary to initiate that beginning, should it ever be needed.

The problem is: No one knows how to get there.

In a zombie apocalypse, being lost can be a death sentence. A wrong turn can lead you to run out of supplies before reaching your destination or into a dead-end, complete with lots of the dead to populate it. Because of this, to survive, you need to not only know where you’re going but, equally important, how to get there.

The simplest solution is to learn how to read maps. I mean physical maps as you won’t be able to rely on your GPS. And learning how to use a compass or even make a compass are also valuable skills to have.

The best thing in your arsenal is your own experience. Suppose you’re surviving in your home area. In that case, the knowledge you have of that area is critical to avoiding trouble, like knowing which roads are laced with potholes, which ones get the most traffic, and which ones are most likely to pass by densely populated areas. These are things no map will tell you and could mean the difference between getting to where you want (Even if you had to take a longer route to get there) and getting caught in a herd of zombies (Even if it was the shortest route).

The simplest form of guidance you can have in a zombie apocalypse is to know where you’re going and how you’re going to get there.