Scott Hagen is from New Jersey where he lives with his beautiful wife Peggy and his two sons' Matthew and Andrew. This book is based on a true story where Scott and his friend Michael Puorro Kayaked to NYC from NJ and back. On the way back they saw a coconut in the Hudson and picked it up. When they returned home all the kids wanted to know about was where the coconut could have come from and the story was borne.