True that. I was just thinking that wherever those temp portals land, we should build a little fenced-in corral—well lit—capable of taking something on the order of 10 large chests and an End Chest. Caches, if you will. Say, every thousand blocks? When the time comes, we can have Turtle populate them with the necessaries for the next 1000 meters of build.
Save us an awful lot of carting crap out there.
When we finish the thing, we could take another trek along the ground to each cache, build a little room beneath the nearest tower to store away a chest of emergency supplies, then destroy the leftovers. We could tack a ladder up that pole so we have emergency up/down access at 1000-meter intervals.