How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

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Dave, this new site reminds me of the site you described on TSNS, where you had secreted an inflatable float for your frequent visits. As I recall that spot became less secret as traffic in the area increased and you never went back.

Here's hoping that new spot remains a secret and after the chair arrives just as pleasant as the old one.

Ahhh! Relaxing in the warm embrace of the sun.

Duane

[balead]

Dave,

Great to learn that you are starting to come out of your naturist hibernation and that you have found a new spot that is so convenient. Not so good to hear about the arthritis though.

Hopefully, even if the sun and air cannot help with your condition physically the mental lift that sun on skin provides will improve your sense of well being.

Thanks Ian. I'm already feeling good about spending over 3 hours there in total on a completely sunny day today. It would have been more, but I have to be careful about burning after the poor early spring and not becoming gradually used to the sun. Lots more sun forecast for tomorrow.

Nothing was said about my chosen attire, though they did all have huge grins…

Here's hoping that new spot remains a secret and after the chair arrives just as pleasant as the old one.

Thanks Duane, I'm already leaving an inflatable mat there (and tools for further clearing) and using a container found there as a makeshift chair. I have to be careful about being seen entering and leaving as the area is well used by the public. If I stand up in my chosen location I can actually see people walking about. Using lines of sight, even if they noticed me they would only see my head and the top of my shoulders, but I'll be doing my best not to attract attention.

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Third weekend in a row with rainy weather and cooler temperatures. Had hoped to do a hike today but cloudy and rainy AGAIN.

Tomorrow we'll be busy. I have to try again, maybe during the week.

Duane

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I have been off air for just short of a fortnight as I have been on holiday in sunny warm lovely Florida Keys (Islamorada to be precise)!  I'm sure you haven't even noticed!!

Not True!  Was wondering where you were. Still wondering as your last post was 10 days ago. Are you on the 2nd leg of your vacation?

When I was in my mid twenties (late '70's), I had this idea I would go to the Keys for a vacation and do the Jimmy Buffet. Find a small cottage down on the Keys somewhere isolated and kick back and make no firm plans. Stock it with what I would need for a week and see what happened. Then I got busy and forgot and then life happened.

My wife is incapable of remaining in a state of rest for longer than a few hours so this is likely to remain a fantasy. It was less developed then but there's not a lot of real estate there so it might still have some of the old feel of a less frantic lifestyle than my current digs.

Hope it was nice. Should have been this time of year.

Duane

[nuduke]

I've popped in quite late to this thread since my last contribution but I'd like to throw out a few comments, please:

1) Hi Dave, brilliant to hear from you and I do hope that your new site will bring you the much needed input of solar energy and open air that I think you have been lacking for a couple of years or more.  Hopefully your little habitation in the brambles will become a refuge of pleasure and nakedness as in days of yore i.e. 2010ish and we'll get the weather for your enjoyment!
2) Also, Dave, commiserations about the Rheumatoids.  It's a bugger of a problem - a friend of mine has it and it's tough but over time it seems to be possible to adapt life to keep it broadly at bay although there are many and various ways to arrive at that - diet, drugs, yoga, steroids, alternative remedies, exercise, non-exercise, sun, hot water bottles etc etc etc etc.  My advice but merely as bar room lawyer, you understand, is to read up on it and get going on finding if there's anything that helps materially.  Like my friend found, you may also find some things make it materially worse! Still, there's an additional hobby for you!  Seriously, I wish you every good luck in keeping it controlled and hopefully as much at bay as is possible.  Does it prevent you riding your bike?  My friend doesn't seem to be prevented from doing much although lots of things are painful and joints stiff so there are now more limits on how much she can do.
3) Duane, I did have a good holiday, thank you.  The Keys are a very relaxing place although I was a bit gobsmacked by Miami - never realised it was so big.  What I hitherto though of as Miami is Miami & South Beach! - we stayed there 2 nights and saw the Everglades.  God, I so wanted to swim in all that clear water!  However the Airboat driver may have taken a dim view of me diving in (and one wonders what the tarpon would have made of my testicles!)!
4) JBee - don't think my thoughts did not go to nocturnal golf course walking almost as soon as I saw the view from our balcony!  Unfortunately this was a busy commercial resort and the golf course was only 9 hole par 3 (i.e. small) and interwoven with overlooking hotel blocks, roads, car park, walkways and all manner of irritating nocturnal lighting.  It wasn't like the mighty Westin Kierland in Scottsdale i.e. miles of carpet like grass - it was flat and relatively confined; as I say there was no escape from people and not more than 100-200 yards in any direction before encountering something with people around.  So it was hard to get any place for SN.  They had an outdoor Jacuzzi in a secluded walled grove which offered possibilities so one day I visited it hourly on a bike with a view to 'nipping in' nude when nobody was there...but there wasn't a time when there wasn't anybody there! Not on that day.  My wife and I walked past it late one evening and nobody there.  As we had had a bottle of wine over dinner I had enough dutch courage to grab her and suggest we go for a late night dip in it.  Needless to say, dammitt the gates were locked! 

John

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. . . and one wonders what the tarpon would have made of my testicles!

An appetizer? 

. . . dammitt the gates were locked!

What kind of resort in the Keys locks the gate to a sauna? Strange.

Duane

[balead]

Hi Dave, brilliant to hear from you and I do hope that your new site will bring you the much needed input of solar energy and open air that I think you have been lacking for a couple of years or more.  Hopefully your little habitation in the brambles will become a refuge of pleasure and nakedness as in days of yore i.e. 2010ish and we'll get the weather for your enjoyment!

Thanks John. I arrived there the other day to find the things that I had left there had been disturbed, but nothing was taken, so obviously somebody had found my secret place, most likely a kid or kids. It won't stop me still using it. On another day as I left, I suspected that a man walking a dog had seen me leave. I hung around out of his sight to see if he if he followed it up. He looked in, but didn't go any further. You have to bend double to get in and then have to negotiate nettles and only partially cleared brambles. I'm hoping it will prevent most adults investigating further. 

Does it prevent you riding your bike? 

My legs get tired more quickly and I have to get off and walk up hills more than I used to, but it doesn't prevent me.

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Finally, a day I set aside to hike, and it didn't rain!
6.5 miles and 4.75 hrs. A little ambitious since it's been 5 weeks since I last hiked.
I'm going to feel this one, about half of it was either in sand or gravel.

Don't get me wrong, we NEED rain.
I just wish it would consider my schedule when cuttin' loose. 
Just need to sit and do a write up.
When I get my photos organized I'll post a couple.

Duane

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Balead, when does summer break begin there?

If it is kids you might have more instances of this whenever they let out for the summer.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

Hi Dave, brilliant to hear from you and I do hope that your new site will bring you the much needed input of solar energy and open air that I think you have been lacking for a couple of years or more.  Hopefully your little habitation in the brambles will become a refuge of pleasure and nakedness as in days of yore i.e. 2010ish and we'll get the weather for your enjoyment!

Thanks John. I arrived there the other day to find the things that I had left there had been disturbed, but nothing was taken, so obviously somebody had found my secret place, most likely a kid or kids. It won't stop me still using it. On another day as I left, I suspected that a man walking a dog had seen me leave. I hung around out of his sight to see if he if he followed it up. He looked in, but didn't go any further. You have to bend double to get in and then have to negotiate nettles and only partially cleared brambles. I'm hoping it will prevent most adults investigating further. 

Does it prevent you riding your bike? 

My legs get tired more quickly and I have to get off and walk up hills more than I used to, but it doesn't prevent me.

Could it have been someone checking to see if it was a homeless encampment? People don't like that around.
Jbee

[fuerta]

Good hiking in Sonbou up past Santo Thomas and inland from Sonbou , As I set off from the beach most days I only took my shoes so I couldnt cover up if I wanted to. I met dozens of folk most days and not one negative comment, sometimes I would just get a Ola or Morning  from some others would chat and others would walk with me. Back home on Strensal common today with shorts in hand, a male jogger approached but I decided not to cover up and I just got a"good day for it " later a middle aged female dog walker came from nowhere ,I held my rolled up shorts in front of me and said excuse me , She replied oh dont worry ime a nurse and went on to talk about her dog liking to be fussed over . So a good couple of weeks I would say.

[balead]

Sorry for the delay in replying.

Balead, when does summer break begin there?

If it is kids you might have more instances of this whenever they let out for the summer.

19-07 til 31-08. I'll worry about that at the time, but hopefully there will be no need to.

Could it have been someone checking to see if it was a homeless encampment? People don't like that around.

Well, if he expected it he didn't go far to check. Even if he had it doesn't look like one from what's there.

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fuerta, it sounds like a great two weeks of not worrying at all about consequences.

Is Strensal is the name of your town? Walking in the common area, is that like the town square?

If so that's wonderful to have such a non-reaction in town.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

Yes, Fuerta,like Eyesup request, please elaborate. What are these places?
Jbee

[ric]

son bou and st thomas are on the south coast of menorca, theres a long sandy beach popular with naturists.
wife and i were there in the autumn.
menorca has recently opened up a coastal foot path all round the island, i spent several mornings hiking rural sections of it, sometimes met nobody, other days met several walkers or horse riders nobody seemed bothered about my state of undress.