...but we sure do experience our shared reality differently.

Don is always engineering, in his head, onboard, and ashore. He focuses intently on what is at hand, and once he starts, doesn't quit until it's perfect, good enough, or better than when he started.

Natalie is always mulling over all the future possibilities while tackling multiple tasks incrementally. She tries to create orderly plans to move forward on refitting Elysian while not sacrificing all of the activities she is passionate about, which means that every day is too short to finish what she wanted to accomplish. Just how does one yoga, dance, sew, swim, snorkel, journal, document all the moments, clean, cook, scrub the decks, and varnish all the wood in a day anyway?

As the proud, and regularly overwhelmed owners of Elysian, we've discovered that sailing life is a full-time repair and cleaning job where the boat tells us what we're going to do that day. There are plenty of watery and relaxing moments sprinkled throughout our time, though it generally happens after sunset, when the lighting isn't good enough to work by anymore!