The Nude Life

It’s been over two weeks since the last post here on The Nude Life. Readers are left to wonder if we have run out of things to write about.

Well, with the colder weather here in the North Texas region, things have slowed down a bit for us full-time nudists. We still spend most of every day and of course all of each night nude, but regrettably it is all done indoors because of the cooler weather. There hasn’t been any lack of nudist activities, though.

We have enjoyed several days of nude relaxation with nudist friends, at indoor nudist parties and at a Thanksgiving dinner with some good nudist friends who welcomed us over for the day and a nice traditional dinner. Clothing was optional at the Thanksgiving dinner, and everyone was perfectly comfortable regardless of what they chose to wear or not wear. The two nudist parties we’ve enjoyed since the last posting were likewise very enjoyable, and it is a great pleasure to be able to “unwrap” and unwind with good friends, free of clothing for a few hours despite the cold weather.

Also in the interim, we managed to sign up for a trip of a lifetime: the 15-day nude cruise to Hawaii and back slated for 2010. Bare Necessities is chartering a magnificent mega-cruiseliner for the idyllic tour of the Hawaiian islands for some 2,000 lucky nude cruisers. We’ll be among them, in some 840 more days, along with at least a handful of our nudist friends from here in North Texas who have already also signed up.

We’re looking ahead a week now to the big annual Holiday Party held by our home nudist club, which is always a lot of fun and is always well-attended. The following week provides two more dates for nude parties, including a nude Christmas get-together on December 25 and a very much anticipated “Nude Year’s Eve” party planned for December 31. It will be the 14th year in a row we have spent the New Year’s night nude, either with our nudist friends from home, or aboard a nude cruise ship as we did for the Millennium in 1999-2000.

What are your nude plans for the holidays? Are you staying home, visiting a local resort, or heading out to a resort or other nudist destination for some nudist relaxation during the holidays? Discuss your plans, or get tips and advice from other nudists from all around the world in The Nude Life Forums!

It looks like the exceptional string of above-average warm weather we have enjoyed in North Texas since September will be ending later this week as a cold front presses through the area before Thanksgiving Day. That means we will need to start wearing clothes for a much greater part of the next few months than we have had to do since late March. North Texas is graced with weather very suitable to nudism, with mild Spring and Fall seasons, and glorious hot, sunny summers that last the better part of four months.

As late as today, we were able to enjoy nude sunbathing outdoors in the afternoon sunshine. Temperatures in the low 80s and clear, brilliant sun made taking a break from work for a half-hour to soak up some solar energy a real treat in mid-November! And still tomorrow, before the cold front moves in on Wednesday, we expect to heat up the hot tub and enjoy some nude hot tubbing in the late afternoon. We’re spending Thanksgiving Day with some nudist friends, and so we don’t expect to be dressed up –at all!– for our Thanksgiving feast, even if it means we have to remain indoors for a change.

With any luck, winter will pass with its usual timidity, no snow and ‘cold’ temperatures only in the mid-30s for the coldest days of January and February. But that only makes looking forward to the return of warmth and sun in the Spring all the more tantalizing.

What’s it like where you are? What nudist plans do you have for the holidays? Share your experiences and adventures with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum!

Tell anyone else that you plan to move to a nudist resort to live clothesfree full-time, and they’d most likely react with disbelief and shock, and you’d have a lot more explaining to do before you’d be able to continue to count them among your friends. Tell the same thing to one of your nudist friends, and they not only understand, they respond with good-natured envy at the wonderful days awaiting you.

Nudists understand, on a very comfortable and familiar level, what’s important and valuable to other nudists, and so sharing dreams, plans and experiences of the nude life with our nudist friends is very easy to do. The same things that they have found wonderful and life-changing about nudism are the things that we all discuss whenever we’re together. Last night’s gathering of many of our nudist friends at a small party hosted by one couple was a perfect example. Someone inquired about the progress we’re making on our retirement plans, which include moving to Florida and living at least the better part of the year at Cypress Cove. Sharing details like that with any non-nudist friends or co-workers is out of the question, of course, so we have to keep things vague when asked the same things by others. But we can speak freely with our nudist friends, since they share a common love for the freedom and friendships that nudism has brought to our lives.

This is probably the same kind of “kindred spirit” camaraderie that all sorts of other self-similar groups offer to their members, whether it’s Alcoholics Anonymous, scrapbookers or model railroad enthusiasts. It is very reassuring to know that we are not “alone,” and that many, many other nice, sensible, friendly, level-headed people share our love of this simple way of life.

Have you had similar conversations about nudism that you can’t discuss with non-nudists? Share your experiences and learn from other nudists from all over the world in The Nude Life Forum!

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Our local nudist club has themed parties and events throughout the year, with nearly every weekend offering another opportunity for nude relaxation and fun with lots of great nudist friends. During the cooler winter months when necessity forces us indoors for the season, we often schedule themed parties that have a potential for “costume nudity” where we can add to the fun by “dressing up” to fit the theme of the party. Halloween is the obvious example, but we also have themed parties for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas, and several others, where quite a few folks go out of their way to put on more (or more often, quite a bit less!) of a costume to fit the theme.

As has been mentioned earlier, nobody knows how to dress up more than nudists. But even at our annual Halloween “Un-Costume” party, which features some of the most inventive and hilarious Halloween costumes you can imagine, several attendees decided not to bother with any costume at all, and simply enjoyed the evening nude. Nude is always in fashion and always acceptable at our club’s parties, and dispensing with a costume no matter what the theme of the party is an excellent — and often-employed — option.

It is such a pleasure to not have to worry about not only what to wear, but that you needn’t wear anything at all to be perfectly in style among your fellow nudists. Non-nudists will never know the sublime comfort that comes from simply disrobing and being among friends, nude and unashamed, enjoying life and friendship without the pretension and complications and artificiality that is part of the textile world.

Nude is always an option among nudists. We found the same thing on all of the many great nude cruises we have enjoyed over the years. We’d spend the evenings at sea enjoying the ship, the casino, the shows in the show lounge, the cocktail lounges and dance clubs, in whatever state of dress or undress suited our mood — with hundreds of other nude cruisers alongside us — and no one paying the slightest mind to what, if anything, anyone was wearing. Naturally, nude was always in style aboard the nude cruises, and we along many of our shipmates took full advantage of that luxury by being nude as much as possible during the cruise.

This weekend offers another themed party in our club, and we are probably going to go “the nude route” this time since we haven’t had the time to gather and organize a proper “costume” for the theme. We expect to have a wonderful time — and that all of our fellow guests will quickly join us by ditching their costumes as the party goes on. Although nude is always an option at the start of the party, we’ve yet to attend one where everyone didn’t wind up nude by the end of the party! That is, after all, the one great advantage of attending a nudist party!

What’s your preference for a nudist party with friends? Nude, costumed or clothed? Discuss and share your experiences with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum!