If we were to travel to Liberia today, we would expect to arrive the same day we departed from our home or office, next day if an overnght flight. When Father traveled to Liberia in 1934, however, it was a 22 day transit. There were no practical alternatives. And along the way, the SS Padnsay had other business to attend to, including dropping off supplies, or picking up new goods.

So Father made stops on Funchal on the Madeira Islands, Tenerife and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands; Dakar in Senegal; Conakry in Guinea; and finally Free Town Sierra Leone, before landing finally in Monrovia . The photographs in this section record part of his excursion at Tenerife.