GREEN EGGS AND SPAM

What do you do when your spare propane tank runs out before you had a chance to refill the main tank? The stove and oven won't work without propane, so what do we have left? Eating cold canned food? Not quite that bad. We have a microwave, and we also have a plethora of fresh fruits and avocados from the "boat boy" who kayaks to our boat in the mornings and sells us as much fruit as he can talk us into buying.

You google "breakfast meals in the microwave" and you end up making banana-avocado-coconut oil "muffins" in the microwave (that turned out more like a banana-avocado souffle) and scrambled eggs in the microwave, something we now remember we used to do on the truck. And of course, green Tabasco and fresh avocado slices for the eggs - to add the green.

It looks like it will be leftover spaghetti and canned corn for dinner. A very respectable option, given that we let our main cooking source expire.

We have advance reports from cruising friends a step ahead of us that propane will be available when we get to Bequia, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We'll have to drop off our propane tanks, then pick them up the next day after they're filled.

Our normal plan is as soon as the first tank runs out, start looking for a place to refill that tank. Each tank lasts 6 weeks or so, so that should be plenty of time. It turns out that the islands of the French West Indies, where we've been for the last 5 weeks (St. Martin, St. Barts, Guadeloupe, Martinique) won't refill American-style propane tanks because they have a different kind of fitting. St. Lucia is where American boats go to refill propane, except that right now the one guy on the island that refills propane had a big fall and can't come to work. We certainly hope he gets well soon, for his own sake. For us, though, we plan to move on to Bequia soon.

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