The Nude Life

Lo and behold the front page of The New York Times Web site today, where a 2-page color cover story in the Sunday Travel section highlighted the growing industry of nude travel and nude resorts.

The cover shot is of the main pool at Hidden Beach Resort and some guests playing nude water volleyball, one of the prime mid-afternoon activities at that lovely resort and one which I have enjoyed for many delightful hours. The accompanying photo gallery of shots from other resorts including the beautiful new Mira Vista Resort and Spa outside Tucson in Arizona are quite revealing, especially for a mainstream family newspaper.

Overall, a good article, ignoring the common mistake of labeling naturists as “naturalists” and the reference to Sea Mountain Inn as a legitimate nudist resort (it is not). This kind of ‘exposure’ can’t do anything but help bring the idea of taking a ‘nakation‘ to the minds of the several million Sunday Times readers this weekend — just ahead of a long, warm summer in the US. Millions more Web site readers will also be let in on the little secret we nudists have enjoyed for many years: once you take a nude vacation, no other kind of vacation measures up.

Big thanks to AANR for working with the Times reporters on this story for many months.

Today’s glorious, brilliant sun, mid-80’s high temperatures and sapphire-blue skies beckoned us out to a local nudist resort for the day, our first of 2008 to enjoy outdoors in wonderful nude freedom and comfort after too long of a chilly and dreary winter.

We enjoyed the company of many of our nudist friends, who were just as eager to be back outdoors and under a warm sun again. It was our club’s first ‘official’ outdoor event of the year, and the weather was absolutely perfect.

Upon arriving in mid-morning and getting out of our clothes, I spent two delightful hours lounging in the morning sun. Others in our party arrived a bit later, and when they did they moderated their time under the sun much more than I did, and so by early afternoon, it was apparent that I had made a typical “nudist noobie” mistake: getting an all-over sunburn. It’s a mild case, but the tenderness is such that putting clothes back on is not at all pleasant, and so off they came again as soon as we got home.

Being a nudist for many years now, I should know better. But the warmth of the sun is so inviting, and the time spent away from such a wonderful feeling made the two hours I laid out seem so brief, that I’m happy to pay the price of a couple of days of tenderness. 

Be careful of what you let your women see.  I discovered a website by a talented artist,  Jennie Rosenbaum, who also has much to say about women’s issues and our lifestyle, and asked Angie to check it out and see if we should include a mention of it on our site.

Next thing you know, she’s fallen in love with a painting and KAZZAMM! we’re 90 frozen pizzas poorer.  Plus, it’s going to need just the right framing.  More pizzas.

But you know, it’s beautiful.  It means different things to each of us, guess that’s what art is.

Besides, in a couple of years those pizzas would be eaten and forgotten, this painting will still be with us, then our children.  Not such a bad deal.

Oh, and guys, watch out for yourselves too.  You might just spend a lot of frozen pizzas yourself.  Art can be very seductive.  But, ahh, so rewarding!

- Steve

For too many months, we have longed for the warm sun to dance upon our bare skin again, to soak up its magical glow, to refresh and relax clad only in its life-giving radiance. We have literally dreamt for summer’s luxuriant caress to warm our shoulders, to be as Nature intended under the sun’s brilliant rays.

That day has finally arrived here in North Texas, at long last. Today was our first full day of bright, warm sun and springlike temperatures, a day we could enjoy in the most natural and pleasant way possible, and which reinvigorated our love for the nude life. The afternoon’s relaxation nude in the sunshine, soaking up spring’s first warmth fully and from head-to-toe, made us remember again why we are so glad to have discovered this wonderful way of life.

Our pale skin is testimony to how long we have been deprived of the sun’s lovely glow upon us, but we made a good head-start on regaining some all-over summer color today. The week ahead appears to offer more invitations to remain nude as much as possible indoors and out, as mild, sunny spring days are forecast for the coming week. And then summer will follow, with warmth and sun so brilliant and luxurious that only the most foolish or most closed-minded would contemplate enjoying it in any way but nude.

April “officially” marks the beginning of “nude season” here at our house. It’s the time of year that the weather has finally gotten mild enough that we can reliably and comfortably go clothes-free through early October.

The clothes came off and stayed off for most of the past weekend, except for our ventures out of the house to run errands and play some nude whirlyball over the weekend with our nudist club friends. All of them are looking forward to the warm weather we enjoy so much all summer long here in Texas, as are we. It’s just downright frustrating to have to spend so many days indoors, fully clothed, from November through March when the weather is mostly too chilly, too cloudy or otherwise inhospitable to our nude enjoyment.

This will likely be our first full week at home working nude all day, and of course staying nude through the evening, nights and weekends, with the windows open and the mild breezes refreshing the air in the house. These six weeks or so of warm but mild weather are delightful, as we can be nude all day and night indoors or out, without the need for air-conditioning during the day or heat overnight.

After quitting work-time at 5:00 PM each day, we usually retire to the backyard pool area for a beer or two and some reading, listening to music or a card game or two, before starting dinner. Not having to bother with changing in or out of clothes during the day and night to be perfectly comfortable is a delight — certainly one of the chief delights of working from home.

So, with the arrival of April 1, the laundry load goes down, the electric and gas bill goes down, our comfort level and well-being go up, and even the day at work is infinitely more tolerable now that “nude season” is here.

How are you enjoying the arrival of Spring where you are? Share and discuss with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum!