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.

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.

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.