How far to Navigate to your BOL?

[Reality Jones]

I managed to make it to my BOL on foot and I learned a few important things.

no matter how light you think your bug out bag is, after about 5 hours it will weigh 5 times as much.
you need to carry and use a lot of water and once again that is heavy to carry.
Thanks to agriculture there's no such thing as a straight line in the countryside.
Trying to avoid towns adds many many miles and many many hours to your journey.and it's almost impossible.
Checking your BOL on a regular basis is very important, there is a new development of starter homes being built on the land next to my BOL and this will now jepordise any opsec that I had put in place.
I also found that the easiest way to my BOL was by sticking to the roads.