The Nude Life

Our dearth of postings over the past few weeks can be explained by a goodly amount of business travel that has kept us away from the blog, but mainly it’s been that we have been very, very busy making all the arrangements to make our move to Cypress Cove near Orlando in a couple of months to start the nude life full-time.

We’ve been getting a real education in Florida’s homeowner’s insurance market (which was ruined by state meddling); in the Florida mortgage lending meltdown as the housing bubble bursts there and elsewhere; and in a couple of dozen other things we’ve had to arrange to make things happen for our new life as full-time nudists living at Cypress Cove.

I’m happy to report that everything is on track, and we have figured out a neat way around the mortgage mess as well as landing some reasonable insurance coverage. We anticipate closing in mid-May, and moving there from our home in Texas soon after, hopefully by June or July.

Now all we have to do in the meantime is quit our jobs, sell our house here, give away or sell 90% of everything inside it, and move. Figuring out what we can fit from our 3,800-sq.ft house into a single 8′ x 8′ x 16′ PODS moving unit is going to be interesting, too!

We know it will be worth it. Our nudist friends here who have asked about our plans are envious of us already, and we can’t help getting excited by the adventure, fun and freedom that will accompany this life-changing shift in location and lifestyle. Breaking the news to our few remaining relatives and friends (all of whom have no idea at all that we are nudists!) will come when it has to: never, if they don’t want to come visit us (which most won’t), and honestly and without shame for those who do.

I’m very glad to have had our guest bloggers Steve and Angie posting some new items during my slowdown in posts, and I hope they have a great time at Haulover Beach this coming week. Let’s hope they post some reports from their visit and perhaps a few vacation snaps as well!

Meanwhile, The Nude Life Forum still has regular visits and posts from nudists all over the world. If you haven’t checked in lately, by all means drop in again soon and let us know what’s on your mind! And, happy Spring Equinox to all those in the Northern Hemisphere! Summer will be here soon!

Thank God for the alert action by Wisconsin’s Finest in protecting us from ourselves! Risking life and limb (not to mention risking looking like total fools) the cops nabbed a dangerous criminal right in the act.

Totally sober, on a bet with his Dad, a teenage boy criminal ran across the lake behind their house, get ready for this, sit down, TOTALLY NAKED!!!

Can you believe it? Right here in Amerika! I’m shocked! What is this country coming to? Where is the death penalty when you need it?

The next thing you know, women will be exposing their ankles at the beach! This must be stopped right here and right now!

What this country needs is more sex and violence on TV, more wars, higher taxes on working people, and less health care for those sick people who are cluttering up our hospitals and clinics! Certainly not naked boys on deserted lakes in a desolate area of Wisconsin!

Let’s get our priorities straight and smash these disgusting folks that think there’s nothing wrong with a little harmless nudity! That’s where I want to see my law enforcement dollars going!

For the full, ugly article, click here: TMJ4 News

- Steve

What if there was a beach used exclusively by blind nudists?

In the minds of many, it’s not the fact of nudity that is so shameful, it’s being seen naked that is bad. It’s the sight of the body that God gave us that leads to sin and debauchery.

So, what if everyone’s blind? Would that be OK?

I mean, if seeing the ‘naughty’ parts leads people astray, then not seeing them should be pretty safe, it seems.

I’ll have to run that one past Rev. Ralph if I ever run into him. Nah, he’d just say that even feeling good is evil. I saw a bumper sticker that said: “I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians. They are so not like your Christ”. The wackos have given good people a bad name. That’s wrong.

This guy is the epitome of that idea. Pure hatred. Sad that good folks should have to be associated with this disgusting vermin.

And that’s the gist of it, isn’t it? We just have too darn much fun running around nekked and they can’t stand it. There must be something sinful behind it because they know that if they tried it they’d instantly be turned into lustful fornicators and have to roast in Hell forever.

OK, that’s not fair. Most people just think we’re weird, maybe a bit twisted, and they have no interest to try. That’s all right, I feel the same way about Republicans.

I’m not a Christian, but I do ask “what would Jesus do?” Because, to me, Jesus represents the best of human behavior, and a good example to follow.. To use His name to attack the innocents, in this situation, us, disgusts me.

Guess I kinda got off an a rant there, huh?

Would love to hear from blind persons, get their perspective on this. I mean, for them porn is sound and not image, skin color doesn’t exist but voice does. Nudity would be a totally sensory experience, Probably more so than for the sighted. Yet I have yet to meet a blind nudist.

That’s it.

- Steve

Woo woo!  We’re going to Haulover Beach!  If everything works well we’ll be there the 26th thru 28th of March, a long needed respite from this goddamn frozen hellhole of Wisconsin.  Pardon the language but this has been one awful winter.

Thanks to Angie’s new airline job, we get lots of free air travel and are damned intending to use it!   First stop, Miami Beach! 

Got a hotel 125 yards down the beach from Haulover, plan to get decently sunburned.  If we don’t, it’s our own fault.  Like I told Angie, we don’t have much money but we can go where the rich folk do!

We’ve gotten so sick and tired of winter that we were ready to move South

 to escape it.  That means leaving family and grandkids behind, not so good.  With her new job, and occasional escapes to places warmer perhaps we can hold on a few years longer.  We’ll see.

We still long to move to a nudist community where we can be us most of the time.

Like I said, we’ll see.   Ah, for a perfect world… 

- Steve

P.S. - To our Northern friends, we won’t be there long enough to send postcards, but we’ll be thinking of you!  Ah, actually, probably not .  Sorry about that…  ;-)  

In the 34+ years since I last strapped on a pair of roller skates, a few things have changed. Back in my high school days, when I was on the varsity swimming team, I was a 6-foot, 4-inch mass of sinewy muscle, proably about 4% body fat, and able to bury my fellow high school football player jock friends in endurance, upper-body and leg strength, and pretty much everything else. My friends and I roller skated almost every weekend at some of the many huge new roller rinks that sprouted up around the Chicago area in the early 1970’s, and of course, I was still more than two decades away from discovering nudism.

Today, I’m sorry to report that although I am still 6′ 4″, I am a typical doughy middle-aged white guy, whose chiseled musculature from high school is now just a memory on an atrophied, fleshy bodkin. But, that didn’t keep me and 25 other nudist friends from our first-ever nude roller skating party last night.

We had a blast. Most of us had, like me, not strapped on a pair of skates in at least a couple of decades. And amazingly, none of us made fools of ourselves (other than the very act of skating around in circles for two hours without a stitch of clothing on), and there were very, very few spills and no broken bones, split skulls, or compound fractures.

The rink owner was gracious and accommodating, too. He said it was the first time he’d ever hosted a nudist group in the 30 years he’s owned his rink. His DJ, however, said with a wink that, “unofficially,” there had been a nude skating party there in the past — and it seemed as though he had a set of keys to the place.

Everyone enjoyed the evening, and we are planning to make the nude skating night an annual event for the club. We also snapped some group photos, which we will submit to AANR for publication in The Bulletin in an upcoming issue.