Sometimes you gotta be flat broke with no money, no phone, and lost in a foreign land to realize:

You can figure it out, and you’re stronger than you think.

Sometimes you gotta be lost in the middle of the woods to realize

You really should take more safety precautions.

…so at least someone knows where to look if you died. (Okay, not funny, but both of those are true stories…)

Preparation and improvisation are a “both/and” kind of thing.