Greetings from Kayaker

[Kayaker]

Hello all, thank you for having this site available for those coming in from TSNS.  Appreciate your willingness to let us regroup and recover. 

I am stateside and married to Tanman (Larry) who is one of the oldies but goodies from the other site.  and has been a long time member.  He met up with several here on a trip a few years ago and I look forward to the opportunity to do the same.  He has been a naturist his whole life.  Apparently I was too to some degree, although I had never heard of the concept until we met.  I just knew I disliked clothing on my skin except for soft things and was without as much as possible. We are both avid nature and outdoors folk and spend almost all of our no working time outside, naturally.

Cheers,
Lisa

[milfmog]

Hi Lisa,

Great to see you pop up here and please pass our best regards on to young Larry.

Have fun,


Ian.

[eyesup]

Hello, Lisa!

Good to see you and Larry present again.

It's a new site for some, so welcome to the fireside.

Duane

[Karla]

Hi Lisa!

Welcome to the forum

[Kayaker]

Thanks all. I hope we can reconnect here until a new island is discovered.  I agree with Duane about not pirating off with this site.  We tend to drift off topic which has been the fun meandering fir me whilst I was reading the history before.  As verbose as many are here (the best part!). I think we need a lot of bandwidth.  I'd be willing to chip in a little if someone has the expertise.

To catch up in one sentence,  We've been in hyperdrive for a year.  Mr. Scott  configured the dilithium crystals for a shorter traverse across cyberspace and we got stranded for a bit when we came out of warp.  Tried to organize an outing to meetup with JBee and some others but changing jobs and several family issues got in the way. 

I am looking forward to reading all the historical posts here.

And a huge Thank you Miss Karla!  Our bucket list includes a Scotland adventure and we will definitely take in the (naked) Munros!

[nuduke]

Lisa,
Did Larry get my email?
Would like to think we are still in touch with the erstwhile brown bum.
It turns out hymie signed in here some time ago but I don't think he's yet twigged (yorkshire for realised) that we are all, like a boil on the neck, gathering here.  So if Larry has hymie's email, could he give him a bit of a dig and get him to check in here.  If we've lost him, I for one shall greatly miss the old er...b...builder hymie as indeed I have missed the old b...er...bastard Larry!

Regaradamentos

Old git, John

[jbeegoode]

Lisa,
Did Larry get my email?
Would like to think we are still in touch with the erstwhile brown bum.
It turns out hymie signed in here some time ago but I don't think he's yet twigged (yorkshire for realised) that we are all, like a boil on the neck, gathering here.  So if Larry has hymie's email, could he give him a bit of a dig and get him to check in here.  If we've lost him, I for one shall greatly miss the old er...b...builder hymie as indeed I have missed the old b...er...bastard Larry!

Regaradamentos

Old git, John

I'm not so sure that if he did get the email that he would understand it.

Some of us are getting comfortable here. The picture thing can be worked out, easier than creating a whole new place. This place appears viable. Any comments.

 There probably is a need for a section called SN as it is such an important subset. I've been pondering this. Defining and overlap should become a confusion and problem at times. However, it then would be identified and that is useful to newbies. Definition and confusion and overlap has been a continuing problem that we always shrugged and accepted amongst us at TSNS. So, rather than seeing it as a negative, I'm thinking that it might just make us feel even more at home here as a free range site which has SN as a subset.

A bit of free flowing chaos can be enriching.
Jbee 

[nuduke]

I'd like our own photo-friendly place, I think.  One where we can organise in topics a bit (not that we stick to them much!).  Stuart & Karla's generous accommodation of us is gratefully welcome. But like having noisy lodgers, in addition to all the absolutely relevant and appropriate common-interest free ranging naturist interaction, opinion and sharing, they may get a bit tired or concerned about the volume of stuff we generate that is unbridled friendship chit chat and not always 100% locked in and dedicated to the subject of enjoying nudity on top of small mountains (or large ones come to that). 

I will miss my regular fixes of the Arizona desert landscape in pictures if we don't find a new home.

But I feel comfortable here at least in the company of my old shipmates turned FRN island dwellers and I am absolutely certain that S&K will accommodate with open minds and hearts all our other verbal antics .

BTW - Do I need to apologise for this marooned-on-a-desert-island fiction I'm weaving?  Or stop it?  I'm rather enjoying the washed up mariner references as the shipwreck of the good ship TSNS is the the nearest analogy that I can see.  Anyway, if you want me to stop, please tell me what am I going to do with this job lot off ebay of wooden legs, parrots, eyepatches, ships biscuits and three cornered hats that I've acquired?

Aharrrrgh Jim Lad! Shiver me Timbers! Belay there....  And all that piratical nonsense! 

John

Oh and PS if we're going to be berthed in this 'ere billet for any length of time, I'd love for Stuart and Karla to chip in to the conversation!
We never got them to join us on the old site but sailing in their own bark together, well, why not be sociable?

[eyesup]

Anyway, if you want me to stop, please tell me what am I going to do with this job lot off ebay of wooden legs, parrots, eyepatches, ships biscuits and three cornered hats that I've acquired?

If you become too annoying we'll have to have one of the locals there bop you with a migratory coconut to snap you out of it!

Duane

[jbeegoode]

I'd like our own photo-friendly place, I think.  One where we can organise in topics a bit (not that we stick to them much!).  Stuart & Karla's generous accommodation of us is gratefully welcome...

...I will miss my regular fixes of the Arizona desert landscape in pictures if we don't find a new home.

But I feel comfortable here at least in the company of my old shipmates turned FRN island dwellers and I am absolutely certain that S&K will accommodate with open minds and hearts all our other verbal antics .

BTW - Do I need to apologise for this marooned-on-a-desert-island fiction I'm weaving?  Or stop it?  I'm rather enjoying the washed up mariner references as the shipwreck of the good ship TSNS is the the nearest analogy that I can see.  Anyway, if you want me to stop, please tell me what am I going to do with this job lot off ebay of wooden legs, parrots, eyepatches, ships biscuits and three cornered hats that I've acquired?

Aharrrrgh Jim Lad! Shiver me Timbers! Belay there....  And all that piratical nonsense! 

John
Oh and PS if we're going to be berthed in this 'ere billet for any length of time, I'd love for Stuart and Karla to chip in to the conversation!
We never got them to join us on the old site but sailing in their own bark together, well, why not be sociable?

So, we need a section on FRN called simply “Secret Naturism”.

I already have two new trip reports written and the photos lined up for my new site, which will present these in a higher quality format. Future trip reports and all of the older posts from TSNS will be posted there, a new one each week for a couple of years. It should be up and running by the end of the month. I’ll clean up the older ones, proofread and rewrite as best that I can and change out some of the photos. The new format will allow a much better pic presentation. The old posts are not lost. I have been planning to do this for several months. The purpose is to expand and promote free range naturism, educate people on the greater potential that they have for nude recreation and lifestyle and to educate newbies to the possibility that naked is very very good. It will be a bit travelogue, a bit Arizona Highways, a bit SN and craft.

I’ll post notification and link from here with each new report. I’ll link here, now that TSNS is gone, recommending this as the best place for discussion and a base of knowledge as FRN Forum grows into the treasure trove that we have lost. My new site’s format doesn’t accommodate the participation, enthusiasm and the freewheeling ownership of a forum.
Jbee

[balead]

So, we need a section on FRN called simply “Secret Naturism”.

No we don't! Karla and Stuart have been very welcoming to us and we need to adapt to this site instead of trying to take it over. We could never agree on the exact definition of "secret naturism" anyway and "freerange" covers what we do.

"Secret naturism" is dead, long live freerange naturism!   

[eyesup]

I'm not dead!

'Ere.  He says he's not dead.

Yes he is.

I'm not!

He isn't.

He will be soon. He's very ill.

I'm getting better!

You're not.  You'll be stone dead in a few minutes.

I feel fine!

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

[jbeegoode]

Most quoted, quotable movie ever... maybe ("Airplane", too.) Sitting around with a group of Society for Creative Anachronisms, a medieval recreation group watching it is like going to the midnight "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Everybody says the lines along with the flick and loves it.
It is probably time for me to get another dose of The Holy Grail and break out the DVD with popcorn.

I think it best to move this discussion over to the suggested topics section.
Jbee

[tanman]

"Secret naturism" is dead, long live freerange naturism!   

Someone stole Dave's screen name ... this is definitely not our old friend and Secret Naturist, "Dave!"  He would NEVER make such a statement!  Definitions ... what is it that we're doing whilst driving 1200 miles cross country, naked?  What is it called when I was tanning, naked and undetected, at the beach last week whilst textile beach goers were 100ft to my left and 100ft to my right? Secret Naturism is not dead for me, and I thoroughly enjoy Free Range Naturism when I can make the opportunity for it ... I think my naked sailing would be a subset of FRN ... but, mowing the lawn naked would have a different name ... and spending time naked in the hot tub on the patio of our condo would have a different name ...

Having fun, naked!
Larry (tanman in Texas)

[jbeegoode]

I've found a couple of times the use of "secretive naturism" and "stealth naturism" better terms of explanation and definition than free range naturism, although I would call both subsets of free range. Larry's example at the beach proves this. No sense throwing out secret naturism. Besides, if I have been doing it for all of these years and continue. It ain't dead yet.
Jbee