On one such trip in November 1951, Victor Winterburn and his companion bicycled 320 miles [520 km], reaching Les Anglais in the south. They averaged nearly ten hours a day in the service on that journey and placed over 500 pieces of literature.

When Fred Lukuc was visiting these congregations in the spring of 1952, he had to cut short his visit because he came down with malaria. He later wrote: “I started homeward from Cavaillon, my bicycle loaded with personal effects and literature, for this ride of 108 miles [174 km]. I passed the first night at Vieux-bourg-d’Aquin and took the last of my medicine. The next day’s ride, as I pedaled through the hills to Grand-Goâve, was exhausting. That night I lodged with an elderly interested man. I slept little. The fever and perspiring left me weak. So the humble old man arranged for me to go by truck to Port-au-Prince.

He and Alex traveled unpaved roads on bicycles loaded with literature while they visited the homes and villages along the way. People rise early in rural Haiti. These missionaries would make their first call by six o’clock in the morning and continue preaching until after dark. Then they would stay the night in the small thatched houses of the hospitable rural folk. In Saint-Marc and Gonaïves there were hotels in which they could stay.