Me and a classmate actually formed a decent plan. ME, him, and a friend who can fly a plane will fly down to San Francisco and hide out on Alcatraz. We would stay there most of the time only leaving by boat to the mainland for supplies and to find survivors to rebuild society. Alcatraz is great because you need to be in really good shape to swim over to it, and by the time the zombies figure that out then we would have a decent security system set up.
But, if that fails. Steal a cowboy hat from the nearest country store. But a sniper rifle. And roam the country side picking of zombies, saving potential Protagonist type characters, become the likeable/ tough / somewhat crazy sidekick that people remember more than the actual main character. Then when it all comes down to it. Ill survive, cause i kick ass. and i know that eventually the zombies will starve to death. ( they may be zombies, but their bodies still function the same. And seeing as how they can only eat living tissue, soon most people would be either zombies and starving, dead, or safe. )