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?

The Nude Life is in its second six months of life, and we’ve managed a total of 52 posts (including this one); we’ve migrated to our own domain; and we’ve set up a community forum for nudists from everywhere to discuss and share their experiences.

Along the way, we’ve tried to share some thoughts and real-life insights into living the nude life, but at the same time we wonder if we’re ‘trying too hard’ to come up with good post topics. After all, once you’ve taken your clothes off and begun life in earnest as a nudist, being nude as much as possible and enjoying nude recreation, nude cruises and the fun of an active local nudist club, how more more is left to be said?

It’s not like there are new innovations everyday in being nude — if anything, it is literally the world’s oldest state of being. And as tens of thousands of other nudists do everyday, we here at The Nude Life go about our daily business, earning a living, loving, laughing, dealing with what life sends our way, as anyone else does — we just do it wearing a whole lot less than most folks do.

Yet it seems that the relative novelty of being a nudist in America is worthy of a blog post now and then. We think of ourselves and very experienced nudists, having been nearly everywhere and done nearly everything there is to do nude in the US and most of the Caribbean for the past 12 years — and soon, we’ll set out on another chapter of our lives as we retire and move to a nudist resort in Florida to live nude full-time.

We’ve been grateful for the contributions of our guest blogger, and we’re still interested in hearing from other nudists who’d like to guest-blog here on The Nude Life. And we’ve especially been gratified for the substantial readership this blog gets (if we’re to believe the Feedburner stats) — which grows each month.

But we’d really like to hear more from our readers, with their questions, comments, feedback and thoughts about what they like, dislike and would like to see more of on The Nude Life. So if you have anything you’d like to share, we invite you to post a comment to any post here on the blog, or of course send us an e-mail at editor@thenudelife.com.

And in the meantime, we’ll stay nude — and keep trying to make The Nude Life blog worth your while to read.

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.

So many people wait — years, quite often — before giving nudism a try, that when they finally do ‘take the plunge,’ their usual reaction is that it is so pleasurable, so natural and so not-a-big-deal that they wonder why on earth they ever waited so long.

We have heard exactly that from many, many nudist friends. They spent months, years, even decades thinking up reasons why they shouldn’t / couldn’t / can’t / won’t give the nude life a try — and then they found out, only much later than they should have, how much fun and freedom they have been missing.

Really, what’s the worst that could happen by giving the nude life a try? If you make your first experience at a local nudist resort or nude beach, the people you meet there will be friendly and easy-going, and just like you, they also, at one time, had to make the first big decision to take off their clothes ‘in public.’ Yet they made it, and are much happier for it, and will be there to ease your introduction into the nude life — much the same way others probably helped them when they were in the same situation. In all likelihood, you will have a wonderful time and will regret the moment when you have to get dressed again and go back to the textile world.

And if by some incredible chance, you don’t love the liberation and fun that comes from running around in the costume Nature gave you, look at it this way: you won’t see any of those people ever again! And even if you did, by some weird coincidence, they most likely won’t remember you
and most certainly won’t recognize you with your clothes on!

So there’s really very, very little actual risk to giving the nude life a try. You have a whole world of new, nude experiences awaiting you if you try it and like it (which nearly everyone does), and if you’re the one person in a million or so who doesn’t love it, what have you really lost? Nothing. But at least you’ll know.

Did you put off trying the nude life longer than you should have? Are you yet to give it a try? Discuss your experiences in The Nude Life Forum!

Two friends from our local club are getting married on Saturday (as many people are on that special day), and like most of the rest of them, our friends will be having their marriage ceremony while fully clad.