The Nude Life

Somehow, three-and-a-half full weeks have elapsed since the day we arrived at our new home after making the drive from Texas, to take up residence full-time at America’s most beautiful nudist resort. What an amazing time it has been!

The day we arrived, we made it just in time to head to the pool to cool off, relax and enjoy a few adult beverages at Happy Hour. We spent most of the time during those hourse just smiling at each other, relieved and excited by the realization that we had finally made it, and were now really and truly at our new home, where we can be nude as much as we like all day every day everywhere throughout this beautiful development.

Then we had a scant two days to decompress and start preparing for becoming full-time Florida residents, with all the required administrative overhead that involved. By the time Friday night rolled around, we noticed that about 2,000 visitors had arrived at the resort ahead of the biggest party weekend of the year here, Parrothead Weekend, a giant Jimmy Buffet-themed party with hundreds and hundreds of people from all over the US coming in for the biggest nude Parrothead party anywhere.

We joined in the fun for Friday night, but then received the call from our mover that he was running four days early and wanted to deliver our 3.25 tons of household belongings to us the next morning, Saturday! We knew it was going to be a hassle having him here during such a busy day at the park, but we also wanted to get the unloading over with, so we told him to come on ahead and we made plans to meet his truck and lead him and his crew into the resort about 10:30 Saturday morning.

I went across the street bright and early Saturday morning to meet the giant Mayflower moving truck and greet our driver who loaded us up in Texas. I told him, “Follow me through the gate, keep the speed to 10 MPH, and by the way, this is a nudist resort, so you might see a few people with no clothes on.” His enthusiastic response to that little announcement was surprising and a bit of a relief.

As we led him and his giant truck down the neighborhood streets, he found himself in the midst of a paradise of serenity as we passed by the lakefront, the front office building, the motel villas, and then into the residential neighborhood of beautiful single-family homes. By the time we were at our place and ready to unload, he eagerly remarked, “Man, this is like paradise back here — I’ve never seen anything like this place!” I concurred with both of his observations.

At my urging and with no small amount of my help, in just a few minutes over two hours we had unloaded our 6,500-lbs. of boxes, furniture and everything else we brought from Texas and we were ready to lead the giant Mayflower truck out of the resort…at exactly the time the big “Parrothead Weekend” parade was headed down the main roads of the resort!

It was quite a sight among the 60-plus decorated golf carts, motorcycles, scooters and bicycles to see a giant Mayflower semi truck and tractor crawling along, with the three crew inside seeing hundreds and hundreds of naked folks in their finest Margaritaville regalia. Women were throwing beads into their open tractor cab windows, tossing Jell-O shots at them, and of course whooping and yelling. And the driver and his two-man crew were smiling and laughing the whole time, sure that they would never see another sight like this in their lives.

In the three weeks since that day, we have managed to unpack every box and stow away / hang / store / arrange everything we moved from Texas. We bought a new BBQ grill and set up our kitchen and dining room, gotten the TV, Internet and other utilities online, and set up our three computers and the wireless network in the house, along with the cable box and stereo…so all the modern conveniences are up and running.

Plus, we’ve gotten into the wonderful resort-style living routine that we have looked forward to: activities nearly every night of the week, nice afternoons by the pool when we’re able to dodge the almost daily afternoon thunderstorms, and the luxury of not needing to be dressed for days at a time as we go about our routine.

It’s hard to imagine that after only three weeks, we’re both really getting used to being nude all day as the norm, but that seems to be the case. The morning routine is much simpler and quicker: arise, shower / shave / shampoo, then towel off, comb the hair, swipe on some underarm deodorant, then set off for the driveway where our daily copy of the Orlando Sentinel awaits.

Breakfast, coffee and the rest of the day commences from there, without the need or a thought to getting dressed or what to wear, when, unless we need to run an errand or visit the grocery store. Simple, blissful, comfortable, delicious nudity day and night. It doesn’t take any time at all to see why everyone here loves this place and this way of life so much.

Beyond all that, there’s not a whole lot to write about! We go about our day as usual, doing all the things anyone would do living in a small residential community: ride our bike down to get the mail every afternoon; go out to dinner; have a beer at the pool during our afternoon of sun and relaxation; chores around the house; yard work; etc., etc. Not terribly remarkable. Maybea visit from Fay will make life even more interesting here in the next few days!

So, the question is, what’s next to write about? I ask my readers to suggest topics they’d like to see mentioned in upcoming posts. Send your ideas to editor@thenudelife.com and we’ll see where it takes us!

If all goes to plan, we will arrive at our new home in Florida a week from today, and then take up The Nude Life full-time at long, long last. Between then and now, we have an increasingly daunting list of tasks to complete, not the least of which is closing on the sale of our house here in Texas and then driving with our cat some 1,100 miles to Central Florida in our sub-compact economy car.

It has been a three-month-long effort to scale down our belongings and ties to the home we have lived in for 18 years in North Texas. About three-quarters of everything we owned in the way of furniture, clothes, books, appliances and other detritus has been given away to friends and charities. When the moving truck shows up on Monday morning to cart away the balance of our material possessions, it will amount to what is typical for a two-bedroom apartment and not the 3,800-sq.-ft. single-family home it was when this process began.

To say we are excited about the big move finally happening would be an understatement, but there is also a fair amount of dread in the mix, as we have a hellacious amount of “stuff” to do in the next seven days before we can finally shed our clothes, open our first cold beer at our new home, and head down to the pool for an afternoon’s relaxation in the nude for the first time as residents of our new community.

With all that happening over the next seven days, don’t expect any blog posts until we have arrived in Florida and the cable guy arrives to hook up our TV and Internet at the house and we’re back online for good from our new home. Wish us luck if you have a mind to, and we’ll be back in touch from Central Florida by this time next week!

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.