Adventure #2: Gibraltar to Mars
In reply to Grimsby H. Baskerville (msg # 68):
"That is good news, Petras!" Joseph adds, "From our discussion before I left the ship, I was assuming a trip of two months! A long time, yes, but not so long that I felt we needed to stock the ship with the truly long-lasting supplies which sailors, everywhere, like to tell horror stories about! No hardtack and Jerky!"
"I made a fine deal with a Chandler I've bought from in the past, and have arranged for a couple of tons of foodstuffs to be delivered. Flour, salt, and sugar, of course, as well as some beans and lentils. Root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, beets and such. I felt that I could skip choosing any salted or salt-packed foods, for a trip of two months duration, and instead stocked up on dried and smoked meats, sausages, and--this being British Gibraltar--I even got a dozen pounds of kippered fish."
"And, while I usually buy supplies for wilderness expeditions--which do tend to be both compact and of long duration--as we shall be comfortably aboard a ship the entire time, I also chose to buy several varieties of tinned foods from England and France--including tinned milk! This shall be a new experience, for me. In the past, the expeditions I was part of either did without milk, or we brought along a goat."
"There are some relatively fresh items, as well--fruits, mainly--which we shall have to consume in the first week-or-so. After that, I got a couple of barrels of apples, some Italian lemons--oh! And it's harvest time for dates and figs in Morocco! So I got plenty of those."
"I believe I got enough coffee and tea--I got a dozen pounds each of Robusta coffee beans from Morocco, as well as Assam Black Tea from India, and, of course, Earl Grey Tea."
"And my friend gave me a really great price on all of it! Just, uh, just sixty Pounds!"