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WHERE IS HAWAII LOCATED | Bottle Of TravelThis is the first post after the news of the Covid 19 "pandemic" and it's associated panic got me to reflect on the precarious nature of the Islands JoAnn I call home. an Island is defined as a land area surrounded on all sides by water. Turns out, quite a lot of water. In one of TenTree . com's  blogs about remote vacations places, it lists Hawaii as " Hawaii is the most isolated center of population in the world, at 2,390 miles from California and 3,850 miles from Japan.* " A not so quick flight of 5 hours at 700 mph IS a lot of water.

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Being an Island 'Vacation' state, we don't have the political real estate to grow enough of our own food  to sustain the population on any given day so we rely on ships to bring in what we won't grow. I say it this way because we do have the acreage to do this, but the powers that be ran off the large farm conglomerates and fruit growers in favor of being the Island Paradise Vacation capitol of where ever. This means that should the boats supplying the food and supplies we need stop coming, we do not have enough stockpiles on the island for more than a few weeks, some argue less than one week if more than one docking is missed.


Doom and Gloom aside, I got to thinking that natural disasters and those man made ones mean that we are or potentially are in a more tenuous spot than most places. I am not ready for the Montana bunker mentality just yet, but I am ready to start stocking up on long storage foods and supplies. Looking around the inter web for a logical starting place, JoAnn and I settled on adding canned food as the kick off project. In our list of upcoming projects we are planning on finishing the garage shed so we modified that plan to include a move of the laundry into it. This opens up the current Laundry area inside the house for retrofitting it into a true off kitchen Pantry.

This is a work in progress so I will e posting as I go. Updates to follow.

Stay Safe and keep busy!

* https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/10-of-the-most-remote-places-on-earth-and-how-to-get-there
For right now, JoAnn suggested putting a can rack inside one of the walls. Yup, in the space between  the drywall.

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