The Penal Colony House A Winter in Bungendore

"What exactly we were doing in a small town in Australia was a mysterious topic, even to ourselves." The Penal Colony House is a diary of an American, married to an Australian, living in Bungendore, New South Wales, a town of 1,500 people, mostly farmers, forty-five minutes outside Australia's pre-fab capital city, Canberra. Theoretically, the couple moved down under for six months to collect their $14,000 tax break from the Australian government's First Time Home Buyer's Grant program. Instead, they found the final outpost of the American Dream. In a series of humorous emails, The Penal Colony House not only offers a vivid account of an American living the Aussie way of life, but also provides intelligence from what might just be the last real Eldorado.