"Going Home: A Novel (The Survivalist Series)" by Angery American
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Novel-Survivalist-American/dp/0142181277/

Book number one of an eleven book apocalyptic fantasy series. I reread
the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Plume
(Penguin) in 2013 that I bought new on Amazon. This is about the fourth
or fifth time that I have read this book. I have purchased and read all
the first ten books in the series. I do not know if I am going to buy
the eleventh book in the series yet. These apocalypse books seem to
auger in after a while.

The author has a prepper dude walking home from Tallahassee to Orlando
in Florida after a USA wide EMP event. He travels mostly by foot over
200+ miles with a 60 pound backpack of goodies that he had in his car
(food, water, night vision goggles, sleeping bag, poncho, tarp, small
stove, two guns and ammo).

He uses his SweetWater filter to get drinkable water for him and his
companions since he only started his trip with two gallons of water and
a half dozen MREs. Basically, the author feels that a lot of people
will lose their inhibitions when all the conveniences of modern society
go away as the prepper dude has to kill three people in the first 50 miles.

The author has a website where people talk about his book and prepping
in general. Lots of discussions about what to take on the road with you
if you have to walk home from somewhere.
http://angeryamerican.net/

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,048 reviews)

Lynn