You may be wondering what the heck Don't Stop The Carnival, Kinja and the Gull Reef Club are all about.

It all begins with Don't Stop The Carnival, a very funny adventure story written by Herman Wouk about a
couple from New York who decide to move to the Caribbean and open a hotel....something we have always wanted to do!

Kinja is an imaginary island in the Caribbean where the story unfolds (much like the stories aboard our boat!).

Ah, and the Gull Reef Club....well, you will have to read the book to figure that one out !

Friday, April 22, 2011

What the heck happened to the Carnival?

As they say,  "better late than never"... and so it was with us getting back on board Kinja.  We left Tahoe late January with a plan to stop off in NYC to visit Laura, Wilson and Landon and to check out the posibility of purchasing an apartment in NYC.

The visit was wonderful, but we did not realize that Landon could actually read a menu so well...


We were lucky in the apartment hunting and ended up purchasing a penthouse studio apartment with its own private terrace and an amazing view of the Empire State Building.  The apartment is in our favorite area of the city just one block off Union Square.


It took us much longer than we thought it would so while we were waiting to close on the apartment we hired Captain Tom Seybold (with two other crew members) to sail Kinja from the Turks and Caicos Islands to St.  Thomas.  That sail is a real slog -- heading right into the wind --which means you have to  motor the entire way into what can be some pretty heavy seas.

Kinja arrived in St.Thomas before we did and was waiting for us....with one little surprise--she was leaking!!  The fun never ends on a boat!







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