What if you cached fuel along your proposed route to your retreat? Stablize the fuel with PRI-G or other fuel stablizers once a year. <br><br>Alternately add a few 5 gallon Jerry cans to your trailer or roof rack of your vehicle. As you pass fuel stations, refill your tank(s). Of course you have already installed a second fuel tank in your vehicle or bought and installed an oversized fuel tank from J.C. Whitney or similar supplier.<br><br>If you have a retreat, you already know the distance to your retreat. Store fuel in quantities to get you there. Take into account double the "normal" travel time due to traffic congestion, bad weather, alternate routes, and Murphy.<br><br>If you have a retreat, them most of your supplies should already be cached at the retreat. If you need a trailer to carry all your supplies, then you either have too many supplies or you have not cached your supplies at your retreat. I would expect you to have the bulk of your supplies at your retreat, with a different set at your primary residence. Your BOB would have enough suplies to get you from your primary residence/work/live area to your retreat.<br><br>Caching does not have to be an ammo box buried on the side of the road. It could be a U-Lock-It storage facility along your travel route. A 5'x10' unit could store quite a bit of supplies. They frown on you storing fuel but you could easily store long term food, medical supplies, temporary shelters, and other consumables. Many of the U-Lock-It places allow you to store boats, ATVS, and motorhomes. Maybe you store a small trailer or non-functioning motorized vehicle that is really nothing more than a shelter for cached fuel. That way you have cached fuel and still met the safety requirement of keeping fuel out of the storage lockers. Hiding in plain site idea.<br><br>I personally think you need to evaluate the need to Bug-Out. I suggest hardening your primary residence against most threats. You will have to Bug-Out in the event of fire, chemical spills at nearby manufacturing factilites or tractor trailer spills on interstates, train wrecks, etc. In the above events, a hotel on the otherside of town may be all you need in the way of a retreat. Then I could see using the trailer as a mobile cache or temporary shelter.<br><br>I would think a covered cargo trailer about 5x10-12 would be a good choice. Build some folding/hanging bunk beds along the sides. They act as shelves during transport but when cleared allow multiple people to sleep inside out of the weather.<br><br>