Heavy Duty Provisioning

We were leaving Savusavu mid-October, and we wouldn’t be arriving in The Marshall Islands until late January, early February. Since I had no idea what provisioning would be like along the way in Tuvalu and Kiribati, I decided I would stock Exodus with four months’ worth of food. This would have been much better to do in Suva, but I managed to get the job done in Savusavu.

The first step was making the list, well actually the first step was taking inventory. I keep an inventory spreadsheet, and I try to keep it more or less up to date, but since we were low on provisions and lockers were relatively empty, I figured it was a good time to go through and see exactly what we already had. And clean the lockers while I’m at it. Then, in order to make the list I went through my spreadsheet and tried to estimate how much of each item we would need for four months and subtracted what we already had to see how much I needed to buy. OK, truth be told I actually was much more of a nerd and added all kinds of functionality to the spreadsheet, but I won’t go into it so as not to be too much of a bore. Actually, this whole topic of provisioning is boring me, and I’m the one who lived it, so I think I’ll move on.