The Nude Life

The First Wife and I will be spending a week later this week at our future home, Cypress Cove Nudist Resort and Spa, just south of Orlando. We’re headed there to relax and vacation, of course, but as our visit is during the coldest two weeks of the year, we have quite a few other plans in mind as well.

First and foremost, it is to get the wheels turning in a big way on our plans to move to Cypress Cove later this year and live there full-time. We have made contact with Realtors that represent sellers of homes in the resort, and we will be meeting with the resort General Manager for the mandatory in-person interview required of all prospective residents. Since our ‘nudist credentials’ are pretty much impeccable, and we have several friends from past nude cruises who already live at the Cove and can serve as ‘character witnesses’ for us, we think that will be little more than a formality.

We also hope to spend a good deal of time just ‘being’ at Cypress Cove during seven days and nights — to take in and participate in all of the resort’s activities, parties, special-interest group meetings, and general atmosphere of the community. Since we plan to make Cypress Cove our permanent home in just a few months, it is important that we start to get a feel for exactly all that entails.

Friends from a recent nude cruise have a home at the Cove and have given us some good tips on what to expect, and from everything they’ve said, we’re very eager to be part of The Nude Life at Cypress Cove. With over 200 full-time residents and many more visitors and RVers, Cypress Cove is a good-sized American neighborhood — with the notable distinction that all of its residents are committed nudists!

So expect a few blog posts from Cypress Cove during our stay, and perhaps a few photos if we can find anything worth sending along — and wish us good luck in staying warm while we are as nude as we can be during the coldest two weeks of the year in Orlando!

By the way, there are plenty of new posts online at The Nude Life Forum — have you checked in lately?

We’ve been nude for the better half of 2008 so far, six days into the new year. Since the big Nude Year’s Eve party we enjoyed on the last night of 2007 with about 50 nudist friends, we returned to work on January 2 but still spent nearly the whole of New Year’s week nude. Besides extending the bliss and comfort of a wonderful 11-day holiday break into 2008, we’re enjoying more warm weather right now which allowed some decent outdoor nude time over the past week.

There’s simply no doubt about it: being nude as much as possible helps our peace of mind, our well-being, our happiness, and needless to say our comfort and feeling of freedom. Being nude most of the time since the final days of 2006 has renewed our conviction that nudism is something we, along with the rest of the world, need a lot more of.

And so, we have set ourselves the goal of making 2008 our nudest year ever. We aim to be nude at all times when at home unless there’s a very good reason not to be, such as when non-nudist visitors are in the home; we aim to be nude as much as possible when on vacation at as many nudist destinations as we can get to this year; and we aim to spend virtually every minute spent in hotel rooms while on the road nude as well.

In short, nudity will be the default condition starting with 2008, and we won’t make excuses for being nude; instead, it will require a good reason why we shouldn’t be nude from now on.

It is a more pleasant and simple way of living, and certainly one that is more blissful and comfortable. There’s just no reason not to try to maximize our nude time from now on. So 2008 will be our nudest year ever — and so far, we’ve made a very good start at it.

And how’s your nude time in 2008 going? Share your experiences with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum.

The average working stiff slaves away for months at a time, eagerly awaiting those precious few days of vacation that are so eagerly anticipated. For us, the vast majority of those vacation weeks over the past 14 years (since we ‘officially’ became nudists) have been spent on nude vacations. Looking back over the years, it’s easier now to count up the non-nude vacations we’ve had in that time — they have indeed been the exception and not the rule.

Each of those weeks or days of nude vacationing were special, each one memorable, each one the ‘trip of a lifetime,’ as we have often said to ourselves during each of them. We have been very fortunate to have had so many wonderful experiences on so many nude vacations, and now it’s always our first thought when planning a getaway: can we go somewhere nude?

And what strikes us during each one, is that there are a few moments or a few hours that are so exquisite, so luxurious, so memorable, that they are the highlight of the trip and comprise the single most vibrant memory we’ll cherish of that particular journey:

• Dangling our feet in the surf at Half Moon Cay while enjoying that spectacular private island nude with our 1,200 shipmates on the M/S Maasdam
• Dancing and partying on the nude catamaran ‘booze cruise’ during a spectacular sunset in Cozumel
• SCUBA diving nude for a week in the sparkling Bahamas during a chartered “Buff Divers” group trip on a liveaboard dive ship
• Playing volleyball nude on deck with a dozen other happy nudists while at sea during a nude cruise, with the endless blue Caribbean all around

All of those and so many more incredible moments are the moments that make a whole year’s work worth the trouble, to be able to enjoy such freedom in beautiful surroundings and with lots of other fun-loving folks.

There really is nothing else like it.

Read the full 10-part report from the 1,200 passenger nude cruise on the M/S Maasdam in February, 2007 — and share your nude vacation memories — in The Nude Life Forum.

We are in New York City for a few days, and so of course we will be nude nearly half the time. Our hotel is just steps from Times Square, and therefore we’ll probably bump into the Naked Cowboy as we usually do during every visit. But aside from the 14 or so hours a day we’re out of the hotel supposedly earning a living, we’ll chill out in the nude, in the hotel, while taking in an amazing view of 42nd Street.

With views like this, it’s our preference to leave all the lights off in the room and let the lights of the city add a soft glow to the hotel room. Some mellow music from Soma FM coming through iTunes, and simple nudity along with a glass of wine at the end of the day, make a long day of travel almost pleasureable. Leaving the drapes open and the lights in the room off provides us with both the freedom to be nude and not be visible to anyone who might be able to see into our 44th-floor window, but also to let the spectacular lights of the street below add a tender glow to the room.

It’s a wonder we made it through so many years of the business travel grind before discovering the relaxation and unburdening that a nude night’s stay in a hotel can be. A few hotels we’ve stayed at even provide little tea light candles in the room to help add to their guest’s decompression. Would that they also invite their guests to disrobe and relax in the most natural way possible!

Now it’s our habit to immediately undress upon reaching the hotel room after our journey or the day’s work. Unpacking, doing e-mail, phoning home — they can all wait until we’re nude and much more comfortable. And so like every night in a hotel for us, our week in New York City will be spent mostly nude — as we like it.

Are you a “road nudist?” Do you have experiences to share about enjoying simple nudity while away from home? Share your stories in The Nude Life Forum!

We have re-published our series of blog postings from the nude cruise aboard the M/S Holland America Maasdam which we wrote during the cruise in February of this year. The complete series of posts from each day of the 10-day cruise is online in the Nude Cruises section of The Nude Life Forum.

If you haven’t seen those postings before when we wrote them back in February while on the cruise, you can read them all here, in one place, with a few links sprinkled in for reference to some of the items mentioned.

We hope you enjoy reading the posts as much as we did writing them. And as always, we invite your comments, feedback and questions — either here in the comments section of the blog, or in the Forum itself.