The Nude Life

I am back for a few days at our new home in America’s most beautiful nudist resort, checking on our new house and getting a few small projects done before our eventual move here later in July.

The return to the freedom and pleasure of full-time nudity around the house and throughout the resort is an almost guilty indulgence. While others outside our world of a residential nudist resort community must go about their daily business fully clothed, and without the exquisite luxury of not ever needing to think about what to wear, when, I have the freedom to attend to the day’s chores and projects in the most comfortable way possible.

During my four days here, I’ll spend about six hours clothed outside the park, setting up some things for our change in residency and buying some furnishings. Aside from that, and the short duration of a furniture delivery here tomorrow, I can be free and nude at all times as I settle into the incredible realization that The Nude Life is indeed becoming a reality for my wife and I.

That means that the ordinary and the routine become new and delightful adventures when performed nude in this garden paradise. Just today, all of these mundane things were done by me nude for the first time, much to my delight and unending amazement:

• Leaf-blowing and vacuuming the front drive, steps and back deck with an electric leaf vac
• Cooling off with an outdoor shower after the above, so as not to return inside with my sweaty, leaf debris-speckled body
• Installing a safety tail light on my bike
• Going around the inside and outside of the house finding out where all of the keys that were left us by the original owner fit and opened
• Consulting with a carpenter and getting a quote for remodeling work on the new house
• Doing the paperwork needed to get a Florida driver license and transfer the title for our house

Add to that the delectable delight of simply waking in the morning nude and covered in the sunshine of a summer morning in Florida, knowing that there is no need to dress for nearly the whole day; the fun of enjoying breakfast, lunch and dinner nude at the restaurants and bars in the resort, and of course relaxing poolside for a late-afternoon cool-down and swim, and the pleasure of not needing to draw the shades at night when relaxing nude in the house. Life is so much simpler, less complicated and infinitely more comfortable in this nudist community. Each day is a vacation. Each hour is a release from the rest of the world. Each moment is a moment to cherish and savor.

There are countless other impeccably delightful and marvelous experiences awaiting us in The Nude Life we have chosen for the next phase of our lives. Each one will bring a smile to our face and build upon the incredible joy that nudism has brought to us and others who have discovered this fabulous way of life. But even during these initial days at our new home, there are many, many things about The Nude Life that I won’t have any trouble getting used to…nude.

What kinds of ordinary things have become delightful for you when done nude? Share your experiences with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum.

The days are longest now in our part of the world. In fact, today is the Summer Solstice, and we are enjoying the most sun and shortest nights of the year this week here in North Texas. That translates to long, warm days and no need to wear clothes for long stretches of time as we go about our daily routine here at the house.

Weekends bring more opportunities to enjoy the glorious Texas sunshine, with nude pool parties nearly every weekend with our fellow nudist club members from around the area. This weekend is no exception, and we are looking forward to relaxing and skinnydipping later today with our friends who enjoy the summer sunshine as much as we do.

All of this is a prelude to our return to our new home in Florida at the beautiful nudist resort that will be our permanent home later this summer. Things are looking good with the sale of our Texas house, and right now we anticipate making the move to Cypress Cove in mid-July…not a day too soon for our tastes, as we are longing for the delicious luxury of a clothes-free life amid the serene beauty of that wonderful resort community.

I’ll be making a short visit to the new place in ten days, to check in on the place and start some small remodeling projects. That short taste of another few days of a totally clothes-free life will need to suffice until our eventual return for full-time living a few weeks later. In the meantime, we’re keeping as nude as possible here in Texas and enjoying the freedom and blissful nudity of a Texas summer.

Gentle reader, you have a right to expect more than a solitary blog post after our first full week of living The Nude Life for real last week when we initiated housekeeping at our new home in a beautiful nudist resort in Central Florida. Truth is, we have a LOT more to blog about, but we were just too busy doing all the things that needed to be done while we were there to get many blog posts online, and so now it’s time to catch up since we’ve been back in Texas for a few days.

We realized a few days into our week that any calculations we had made prior to the visit about moving to the new house whenever our house in Texas finally sells would need to be re-evaluated. Our plan now is to move to the new house in Florida as soon as possible, so as not to miss a single minute of the glorious summertime weather and fun. So, wheels are in motion now to make the move during June if at all possible, advancing many different plans by several weeks and months to make that happen. The simple fact is that we both underestimated the intoxicating delight of living nude full-time until we actually got a chance to settle into it, and now that we have tasted it for real, everything else takes a back seat to making that happen sooner rather than later.

After closing on the new house and taking up residence in the new house last Friday, we finally got to the point where we had no reason to leave the park for days at a time, since we had done most of our errands and shopping for supplies during the first two days of the week. That meant remaining comfortably nude day and night, and in all modes of activity: sleeping, watching TV, doing chores, cleaning, relaxing by the pool, dining, riding the bike around the resort, going for walks in our new neighborhood, driving the recycling down to the collection bins, going to the mailbox, getting the morning newspaper, and so on and so on.

The luxury and bliss of simply not having to think about clothes and what to wear at every hour of the day is nothing new to us, having experienced it many times at visits to nudist resorts and aboard many nude cruises. But once that freedom is experienced inside your own home and within an entire development spanning hundreds of acres, it really starts to sink in: this is The Nude Life, and it is incredible.

Mixed in with that delight is the knowledge that you have just made friends with dozens and dozens of new neighbors who live the same way you do now, and for the same reason: they love the freedom and simplicity of being nude everywhere and at all times during their everyday life, without shame and without pretension. Simply living with others who share our love of the great joy of social nudism, in a beautiful and serene environment where it is vigorously encouraged, is remarkable indeed.

We have much more to report, and many more adventures still ahead in the weeks leading up to the actual move to Florida full-time, so stay tuned. And feel free to post your comments and thoughts on any subject relating to The Nude Life here on the blog, or in The Nude Life Forum.

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.