Chasing Dreams in a Sailboat

Chasing Dreams in a Sailboat is an anthology of stories about the interesting people we met in foreign sailing destinations; vibrant people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences, who have shaped us into more open-minded individuals.

This is a collection of memoirs about the cultural experiences we have encountered in our beloved British Virgin Islands, the shockingly beautiful French Polynesian Society Islands, the ancient villages along the ink-blue Tyrrhenian Sea’s most dazzling stretch of the Italian coastline known as the Amalfi Coast, and the magnificent Dalaman sailing region in southern Turkey, appropriately nicknamed the ‘Turkish Riviera.’

In each destination, we mingled with the locals and embraced unexpected opportunities so that for a passing moment in time, we could become a part of the diverse civilization we visited.

Born in 1951, on the Indonesian Island of Java, in the village of Surabaya, Joyce Di Lorenzo repatriated with her family to The Netherlands in 1952. At the age of ten years old, she and her family immigrated to America in search of a better life. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she met her husband. Being of Italian descent, one day, her husband suggested buying a vacation home in Italy. Now, the couple divide their time between living in Idaho and Morcella, a lovely medieval village in Umbria.