How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[eyesup]

I was able to go out on a hike this week, see post in Trip Reports, and have been able to be outside at night when it is not so hot. That’s a relative comparison. June has been hotter than it’s SUPPOSED to be. So far July has been cooler than June. Weird!

My wife was traveling a couple weeks ago and I was able to spend a little time in the side yard enjoying the sun. Couldn’t stay long at 2:00 pm as the heat was impressive. Still being in the yard in daylight was very enjoyable. About 6-8 more weeks of heat and then cooler weather should come.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

We've had a very good month...just returning from cross country regional travels (3000 miles two and a half weeks) and several different lakes to float in, au naturale.  Dodging severe weather here and there but all said and done a very good month.  I've been in water more than out since mid April, happy as a frog.  Big straw hat and sunglasses at water level... probably look like a crocodile at a distance.  Counting four weeks of beach it's been an awesome start to summer.  Plus I  got  to do a sea turtle release, that's been a bucket list item.  I like free floating neck deep in a clean lake for 8 hours or more and be perfectly content.  Even when the fish start nibbling at you, although they can get a little pesky.  We've been fortunate to be free for most of the spring and summer.

Enviable! Tis the season!
Jbee

[nuduke]

I like free floating neck deep in a clean lake for 8 hours or more and be perfectly content

Amazing, Lisa.  Is this an exaggeration or do you really float for that long.  Isn't it very exhausting after a while.  To float takes effort too.  Don't you end up all white and wrinkly from over hydration of the skin?  Do you get thirsty? It's really amazing and wonderful if it's true but I suspect there is more to it than meets the eye.
Can you give us a bit more detail about life naked and afloat? That would be cool. 


John

[eyesup]

It’s pouring down rain right now!! Yayyy!  1st rain since late February.

I won’t be able to get out again till next week, which about the right amount of time to see any effects that this might have in the desert.

Duane

[eyesup]

I wanted to go out on Monday morning to go hiking, but the rainy season has started and it was cloudy with thunder in the distance. A flash flood watch was out for the mountains but I was headed north of there.

As expected forecasts are best guesses at best. It was raining when I got to my trail. Most trails here follow large washes and I am not comfortable walking in a wash when it’s raining. It wasn’t raining that hard but the nature of a flash flood is that the downpour occurs far away from your sight and hearing. Until a 6’ wall of water is barreling down on you.

So, I just carnuded around the desert for a while looking at how different the place looked in a rain storm. I am seldom out here in the rain. The temperature was in the high 60’s, low 70’s. Very nice!

When the rain slacked off, I rolled the windows down to smell the desert. Completely different when it’s wet.

No hiking but a good naked ride on the highway.

Duane

[JOhnGw]

Our French trip hasn't been good for free-range.
La Jenny was too surrounded by public rights of way to get any free range in apart from one naked drive to the nearest cash machine and back, but then it was too busy to use the machine naked.
I did have a cycle ride clad only in my lightweight wrap though, tucking it in carefully at the front whenever people were around, which was most of the time.
My final frustration was yesterday during our week at Charante Soleil naturist gites.
Having found a suitably secluded river marked on the local maps and confirmed by Google earth, it was dry when I cycled there for a feee range skinny-dip!
Again the area was too populous to cycle there naked.

[eyesup]

JOhn, I’ve had similar frustrating outings. I think we all have.
As Lone Wati says, “Endeavor to persevere!”

Nice photo! Wide angle or fisheye lens?

Duane

[jbeegoode]

John GW, my charge of home-healthcare has had Le Tour De France on constantly, the last three weeks. The photographic coverage has been phenomenal. The cameras mounted on motor cycles going through the villages and countryside, and the over head helicopter views of the country have renewed my interest in the country that I used to live in, but haven't been back to for 50 years. You are in a wonderful place, in spite of the frustrations. The last post on my website in the Gila Box was also a frustrating time, but then we did our best. Free range may be stifled, but you are naked in a great place.

This working everyday, in shifts to keep a guy watched 24/7 has made my July a very clothed time. I was probably wearing clothes more than I was nude during my waking hours.

We did finally get three days in the White Mountains, but the summer rains kept us in a tent much of the time, bundled up by the cold, and feeling clammy.  I did experiment with the various changes in the weather with a nude body. Conclusion: body is very adaptable when nude.

The final days of this month will be spent mostly clothed while baby sitting!
Jbee

[nuduke]

Completely uneventful month July, no outings, usual naked domesticity, bit of gardening.
One observation though is of my wife.  Whilst sometimes she huffs and puffs if I go about naked, other times she seems not to notice.
Yesterday she was a bit late to bed and I went downstairs where she was watching TV and resting her aching back by kneeling.  I approached stealthily from behind and cocked a leg gently over her shoulder and waggled my foot.  We chuckled and then I sat and watched TV opposite her for a short while.  I was naked and she didn't mention it.  A few days ago I got up naked in the morning as I do and went downstairs to make us a cup of tea.  This never gets a reaction these days.  That day I worked on well into the day until afternoon without donning a stitch.  We made 2 guest beds together and I only got dressed because I had to go out.  So uneventful but not textile.


If I think back even, say, 5 years...or even 2 or 3, my 'How was your month' report would be that I got my clothes off at all.  When I compare with today, I am naked so much more of the time nowadays!
John

[eyesup]

John, we see how Larry’s incremental process is working to your advantage.
Good to hear!

Duane

[nuduke]

Yes, I think it is. 
However, the rate of change is still geologically slow as I used to complain to Larry on TSNS and he used to metaphorically pat me on the head and encourage slow and steady incrementalism! (and PMA!).
John

[nudewalker]

July ended  up to be a good month by most standards I have set lately. Two extended camping trips added to the total time spent outdoors and naked. There were a number of nude hikes plus the daily walks in a little known area close to home that I have been frequenting. Wednesday is the tale of the tape so to speak as I return to the doctor for a follow up visit. I have not been on a scale since my last visit but  when I do wear clothes they seem to fit looser on the body.

[nuduke]

Hope you get your medical problem sorted soon, Nudewalker.  Best wishes.


Never mind How was it for FRN!  I have had a hellish half a month with my wife being ill- very unpeasantly but not too serious - and having to cancel an upcoming holiday, then me being a bit ill and feeling sh** whilst trying to look after my wife.  Our drains were blocked prior to that and I am struggling to repair my computer and laptop after the last Windows Update F****D them up royally.  I pulled my back shopping at the supermarket (long story, heavy bags) and broadly speaking had a duas hebdomades horribili to paraphrase the Queen.  So I have been naked less than usual although dressed in only 1 garment (dressing gown or shorts) more than usual.  Equilibrium having partly returned, I had breakfast in the garden naked this morning.


Life? Don't talk to me about life....
in the words of Marvin the Paranoid Android (and permanent depressive) in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


John

[jbeegoode]

Nuduke, "You deserve a break today!" (Ronald McDonald)
Jbee

[nuduke]

No peace for the wicked, Jbee
Today's agenda:  Yoga class, trash recycling, call the travel agent and insurers for claim info, cook dinner early, voluntary work meeting evening, catchup fave TV prog (University Challenge) late evening*!
Equally busy all week!
John
*Obviously the latter item is not hard or challenging!