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This picture was taken two months before I took my family to the Amazon jungle. Our youngest, Jeff, was only eight months old. He was not yet walking.

Genny and our four children went with me to the jungle more than 50 years ago. That was 1956, the year Jim Elliot and his four companions were slaughtered by the Auca Indians along the Curaray River in Ecuador, a few miles across the jungle from the site on the Marañon River where I built our home.

This is the house I designed and built for my family. You probably have never seen a house shaped like that. A farmer builds his corncrib with slanted walls to give him the maximum amount of storage under his roof. The concrete slab for my house was only 15’ by 30’, which equals 450 square feet. That is about the size of a two-car garage. Even so, that weird design gave us ample living space for a family of six.

On the first floor of that house we had a kitchen/dining/living room area, a radio room, a bathroom with shower, a hallway, an open stairway and two large bedrooms. On the second floor we had two bedrooms and two storage areas. The six of us lived in that house for ten years. Larry and Addie Garman with their children lived in that same house for another 30 years.

Here are some pictures of the inside of our jungle home.

It was much nicer than Genny expected.

Pamela’s, Susan’s and Jeffrey’s bedroom
Judy had a bedroom upstairs

Judy’s bedroom and study upstairs.
You can look over that banister into the kitchen downstairs.
The strange design gave us ample air circulation and a home that was well ventilated and comfortable.

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