The Desert Rat's Handbook

Where will you be when the lights go out again, when there is a terrorist strike, or when the markets are empty because of a transportation strike? Are you tired of waiting in gridlock for hours, inhaling toxic exhaust fumes while headed for a job that you can't stand? Are you in hurricane, flood, earthquake or tornado territory?This book will tell you how to seclude yourself in a desert hideaway-far beyond the reach of developers, retirement communities, and resorts-- where you will know the dangers to watch out for and can be happy-even if you live off the grid-wearing comfortable old clothes and driving an old pickup.

Ruth Burke was a desert rat in heart and mind long before she moved to the land of cactus, sand and sunshine-nearly fifty years ago.She started moving east from Los Angeles, then lived in Thermal, Blythe, Vicksburg, Salome, Yuma, Phoenix, Mesa, Willcox, Bowie and now resides in San Simon with her dog pal, Gipsy.Born during the Depression, Ruth is still "in it", financially speaking, and has lived for many years at half the "official" poverty level or less.She is a graduate of East Los Angeles College and San Diego State and has taken graduate work at Western New Mexico University.She likes to read, and enjoys sitting on the porch and looking at the mountains.