THIS IS A SAILING STORY about a voyage from San Francisco to New York and a man's struggle with love. The sailing adventure is as chronicled in the author's Sailing Intermezzo blog, full of descriptions of natural beauty, sailing skills and mistakes, weather challenges, boat breakdowns, land excursions, foreign cultures, family friendships and more. The love story draws from deeper, more personal sources and introspection, a more emotional tale. The stories combined are of a voyage through outside and inside space, of realizing a dream and building the foundation to become a better man from the experience.