The Nude Life

As I type this, it is a gorgeous, sunny early summer day in the Orlando area, with puffy white clouds dotting a blue sky, temperatures in the low 90’s, and the sun is shining brightly above. I am sitting on the rear deck of our new house, using a wireless connection to post the blog for the first time from our new residence at Cypress Cove. Naturally, I’m nude, as we both have been since getting back onto the property last night after a day of errands and shopping.

The reality of actually living here — even if just for our first day as residents — is still sinking in. The idea that clothing is not needed nor required anywhere on the 280 acres of this serene, beautiful development is still a little too good to be true. But it is.

We closed on our new house today and bid the prior owners farewell. They have left us with a beautiful home, which has been well-maintained and incredibly expanded and enhanced over the years. It sits amid a tropical paradise of mature cypress and palm trees, with a lush park behind our house and a cozy neighborhood of about 200 other homes like ours.

In the three days since we arrived to make all this happen, we have been warmly greeted by dozens of other Cypress Cove residents, each of them taking time to welcome us to the Cove, wishing us well, and offering their help and genuine welcome to the community. Living at a nudist resort brings with it the fabulous amenity of having hundreds of nice, unpretentious neighbors.

Since arriving Wednesday, we have done the following things in the nude for the first time ever: closed on a house; gotten our hair cut; hooked up a TV & sound system; unloaded a SUV-full of supplies; unpacked and set up a sleeper sofa from IKEA that will serve as our bed for these few nights during our first week here; and driven around the neighborhood in our rented SUV. The freedom of just walking out the front door of the house, hopping in the car and driving to the other side of the resort in the nude is something that is just too delicious to describe.

Tonight, we’re looking forward to the “dive-in movie” at the main pool, where the Cove sets up a large projection screen at one end of the pool and shows a movie after dark, with all the movie-watchers relaxing in and around the pool. That follows a special seafood dinner night at the Lakeside Restaurant here, and of course Happy Hour at Cheeks Bar. Which reminds me…we need to get over to happy hour!

Day One as full-time nudists and we’re loving every minute of it. Highly, highly recommended.

After what seems like months and months (well, actually, it has been months and months!), we leave Texas tomorrow to fly to Central Florida and sign the papers for our new home in a nudist resort. The walk-through is on Thursday, and the transfer of ownership (and paperwork, keys, insurance, upkeep responsibility, etc., etc.) all happens Friday morning. We will spend the weekend getting light housekeeping set up at the new place, and trying to settle in for a few days of actual vacation as well.

Buying our home at Cypress Cove and getting everything lined up for retirement in the next few weeks has been a huge amount of work, but also a lot of excitement. We had about 50 nudist friends over to our house in Texas last weekend to help clear out much of the furniture and other things we won’t need after the move, followed by a really fun pool party that night. It was sad to think it might be our very last nude pool party here in Texas, but we can’t complain after all the many, many happy times we’ve had in this house for the past 15 years as nudists.

Moving into a nudist resort is not without some unique complications. Example: our homeowner’s insurer wanted to get some photos of the house for their files, so they have a record of the house they are insuring. That meant working out a time for the photographer they hired to come by and gain entrance to the resort to take the photos, and when I called him to confirm the details, he admitted it would be his first time ever to visit a “nudist colony.” Of course, I gently corrected his use of that old and distasteful term, and assured him that he’d be visiting a perfectly ordinary American neighborhood, with one particular difference: none of the folks he would encounter were likely to be wearing anything.

So, again our apologies for the lack of frequent blog posts of late, but I think they will improve in both regularity and content once we get the keys to our new place in hand and can relax a bit in our new community of nudist neighbors. Until then, thanks for your readership and for the many encouraging comments sent our way via e-mail.

Yes, our posting rate here at The Nude Life is not what you’d expect from any decent, high-volume blog, but it’s the best we can do under the circumstances. The circumstances, it turns out, are those that have us as busy as can be getting ready to move to a nudist resort in Florida to live full-time in just a very short while now. So while other nudist bloggers have all but given up on their blogs (very understandably so), ours is still here — while we’re busy building The Nude Life full-time.

The countdown has begun to the day we move to Cypress Cove to settle in to our new home, and the 18,000-odd details that it will take to make that happen are underway now. Selling our current home, disconnecting from jobs, clubs and other entanglements with our “past life” are proceeding along, and we are optimistic that this will all be wrapped up in a month or two.

Our nudist friends know of our plans to chuck it all and move to a place where clothes are not needed anytime, anywhere, and I have no doubt at least some of them will take us up on our offer to have them come and visit when they can. Virtually no one else has any idea that we are even moving, let alone moving into a nudist resort, so when/if the day comes when they start asking about our new home, we will be truthful with them but considerate in not trying to shock them with the revelation. We have “nothing to hide,” as it were, with our news of taking up The Nude Life full-time, but neither do we particularly care to share the details of our private life with people who are only casual friends.

Meanwhile, summertime has arrived in Texas and we are back to our routine of simple nudity day and night around the house and pool, as the temperatures and warm breezes make clothing a bother. We’ve had the chore of cleaning and emptying out the house in preparation for putting it up for sale made less onerous by being able to do nearly all the work nude. So although our rate of posting has slowed down, we’re every bit as nude as you’d expect from nudist in Texas in the Spring — we’re nude most of the time!

And indeed this weekend, we will be holding a “nude garage sale,” inviting our nudist friends over to pick and take away the items and furniture we won’t be moving with us to Florida. That’s followed by what might very well be the last-ever nude pool party at our house for those dear nudist friends…the end of a very wonderful 14 years or so of fun fun fun nude parties at our house through the years.

So, dear Reader, excuse the lack of postings for the time being as we work on making our dream come true. The Nude Life Blog will be here, and we promise updates as time allows. Meanwhile, don’t neglect The Nude Life Forum, where you can connect and discuss The Nude Life with others from around the world.