How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[jbeegoode]

Sciatica has had me pinned down, but yesterday I felt much better and took a stroll, flip flops only, out to Havarock to lay in the sun and meditate. The critters had been hanging out under and around the boulder, but not on this day. If improvement continues The weather will be unseasonable in the 70F's!!!! AND I'm more than ready to roam after 5 or 6 weeks of this debilitation BS.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Sciatica has had me pinned down, but yesterday I felt much better and took a stroll, flip flops only, out to Havarock to lay in the sun and meditate. The critters had been hanging out under and around the boulder, but not on this day. If improvement continues The weather will be unseasonable in the 70F's!!!! AND I'm more than ready to roam after 5 or 6 weeks of this debilitation BS.
Jbee

Lucky you.   We're having about 10F (-10C) and its way too cold for me to be out naked even briefly   It warms up to maybe 20F (-5C) in mid afternoon, still too cold.

Gotta move to Arizona or somewhere warmer. 

[nuduke]

Yes, JBee, I hear you, really I do.  As is my little wont, I was pedantically picking up on your rather blanket statements in the original post. 

I don't claim that diets and practices that you or I or anyone adopts in the furtherance of better health and longevity don't work - some do.  You are right, it is a matter of sensibly adopting those things that we can observe make us feel better or at least do no harm.  My point is - wouldn't it be nice if we could be sure and have discovered repeatably exactly what lifestyle features make us better.  You have identified some but one longs for objectivity and certainty that choosing X + Y + Z definitely makes us more healthy wealthy and wise.

In the meantime before such revelations are clear, we must look to the pioneers and empiricists like yourself and the great Professor Burkitt that shine a little light into the great darkness whilst we all grope about for truth and certainty in a black thicket of doubt and diversion.

John

[nudewalker]

December had to be at an all time low for Free Range activity on my part. Only four days where the temperature was above 40F (5C) and those days it rained. The one day it was 70F (23C) also was a travel day to our daughters! The closest I came to free range was using the hotel hot tub nude as the place was deserted and what little staff was present had to deal with multitasking! So as we bring an end to this month let me at least wish all of you here a healthy, happy and for the most part nude year!

[Greenbare Woods]

December was way colder than our normal average this time of year, and normal average is too cold for me to be out and about naked.  January is promised to begin with serious bitter cold below zero F,  (-20C).   Way too cold for me.  Maybe in February. 

[jbeegoode]

Sciatica is still a menace. The temps have been cold and I am still occupied with this part time gig. I went on no hikes and merely wandered around my home and neighborhood for the month, BUT that was naked and daily.

I'm taking up a cleansing stretching, exercise, and sweat priority for the New Year. The goal will be top health, enough is enough! This will get me down otherwise. I've got the solution. All i have to do is utilize the plan. I stood looking up into the mountains dreaming of hiking to the pools and through the forest up there, just yesterday. It will be wonderful up there. Several trips are planned. In the meantime, My Tortolitas will be a mainstay. Depending on weather extremes, we'll be in the hotsprings in a couple of weeks. It is rolling into grrreat! We are talking more Mexico when it warms up. And there are some brand new spots set into the lists.

Nude-wise, this will be a wonderful year and no matter what, no matter who is making the rules. Only health can stand in its way.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Only health can stand in its way

Gosh, let's hope it doesn't!  Don't forget that in some way your outings are our outings!  As I type I am clothed against the chill inside the house let alone outside! And outside the frost rime melts slowly from the pavement lawns and verge grass leaving a bone-chilling dampness for the rest of the day as the clouds gather for another grey, sunless few, precious hours of wan daylight. 


At least in my far-away, post-hike, jbee/df- trip-photo-viewing way, I am with you lovely people, in spirit, under the effulgent sunshine and clear blue skies of the Tortolitas, or Reddington perhaps, and with every trip report, feel a faint, ever poignant yearning for the opportunity to stroll naked in the warm sunshine of the cactus-strewn desert, every step of the way! 


So stay fit, keep healthy and know that you walk not just for your own pleasure but, in a sense, that, too, of your less emancipated friends with less frequent and certainly less spectacular naked walking opportunity.


John

[jbeegoode]

January has been the worst month for free range naturism in years. Between sciatic pain debilitating my roaming, lots of crappy weather and me getting back into a job, all be it part time, I have been dressed a lot more.

We did have a nice afternoon excursion to Redington Pass, and a pleasant sweat out on the way to Ajo and a walk about on a great day around their acres of property. Today, we got out to Havarock and then decided to get up into the Tortolita Mountains. The water was flowing and wind was light to nil, the sun was wonderful. The next few days will be nice in 70F's and I hope to destroy this textile streak...but they are calling for me to do some work...

These sweats during the month with friends are very cozy and congenial.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

January has been nothing but COLD, SNOW, and more cold and snow.  Never got warm enough to melt any snow even though our average daily high temps for January are above freezing.  Its been significantly colder than average in these parts since November.   Way too cold for me to be out free ranging naked.  Our 10 day weather forecast still says to expect much of the same, below freezing with more snow.   This sucks.  I'm suffering from sunshine deprivation.

[ric]

For January not bad
A brief walk in the woods in Devon on I think the eight, anyway I posted about it at the time
A couple of brief forays I to the garden
29th and 30th about 5 hours on the beach , esquinzo fuerteventura, really just dressed for breakfast, the walk to and from the beach and for dinner.
Showers yesterday so a tour in the car
Today started showery so sat in reception with the tablet on WiFi for the no, looks like sunny after lunch.

[reubenT]

Not much good weather for nude outside work in Jan.  But Feb is starting off pretty good.   every few days it's warming up just enough to get in a little time out there free working,  or working free (of clothes)  I do get paid though, when pulling out a few logs to sell.   Today was pretty cool,  but it hit 50 by afternoon and with a clear blue sky I found some sunshine to soak up. 

[nudewalker]

Simply put for January; Mother Nature 31 - nudewlker nil!

[nuduke]

Certain amount of garage work nude this month.  Very nippy!  Best day was a very cold but low humidity one so cold tolerance improved.  I wouldn't say I broke any endurance records - far from it but 3 or 4 sustained working periods of 10-15'.  Numerous quick dips into the night or early morning garden just to test the frost!
If we get a sunny day on day I go to art class I shall try and go to the nearby woods afterwards.  Did so in Feb last year but didn't disrobe.  This year I will be prepared!
John

[jbeegoode]

Nuduke: Are you clothed hiking, biking and exploring? Any potentials nearby, or just those woods? Can't you go there any nice day? Is it a spousal thread issue that you only go on art class days, or bust with something? 65 with no wind is pretty good stuff.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Let me respond sequentially

Nuduke: Are you clothed hiking, biking and exploring?

Not really in the winter.  Come the spring I have less impediment to getting out this year than last year.  Remember, we were new in our location and house last year and there was lots to do notably all last summer we had builders in the house and garden and limited opportunity to get out hiking.  But this year, hopefully, I can expand my walking and biking activity. 

Any potentials nearby, or just those woods?

I found a nice spot near a river reasonably deserted last summer which I can get to by bike and leave the bike in bushes and explore the countryside by walking, hopefully nude.  My ambition is to swim or at least wade naked in the local river somewhere.  I haven't done half or even a quarter of the reconnoitring that I intended last winter and spring but as I get about this winter I have been eyeing up spots for further recces.  There is a river walk in the next village which may be promising. The woods near the art class I already have in the bag and I continue to search for woods of which there are surprisingly few within 30' drivetime.  Lincolnshire, where we live, is very flat with high density agriculture so it's flat fields where you can bee seen for miles.  The trick will be to find a collection of fields and hike around them away from the roads (but NB private land) until there's no one to see how you are dressed. 

Can't you go there any nice day?

Theoretically yes, but it's a bit too far to just drop everything and go at a moments notice - that's why I do it after art class because it's close by (5 min drive).  One thing that this spring summer will be a feature of my naturism is to be naked in the garden.  It's pretty private and I can do some gardening in the buff.  This will inevitably cause me to be indolent - why hike for a sunbathing spot when you can just flop in the garden.  I am inherently lazy this way but I do like a nice hike so hopefully I'll get out to some interesting locations clothed probably mainly. 

Is it a spousal thread issue that you only go on art class days?

No, it's proximity as above.  I tell her madj that I'll be walking after art and that's fine.  She knoweth not my attire!


One thing that in retirement I have been 'suffering' from as I think I have remarked before is 'activity'.  I'm not someone who sits in an armchair and reads the paper all day - I do stuff.  But mainly this stuff involves other people and specific days and dates so assaults the diary in a way that actually restricts severely the free-range optional time when one can do just anything one likes e.g. take off for a spontaneous hike. Understand, though, that I'm not complaining - the stuff I do is because I want to and because it's good to do e.g. the art class, the gentlemen's lunch club, the regular date for coffee with my best friend, yoga class, voluntary work etc etc.  I have to say that these things 'prioritised themselves' when we moved to get bedded into our new locale and have filled in a substantial chunk of time that in prior years I spent working.  This is not unique to me by any means!  The things that have taken a back seat are hiking, fishing and the two of us visiting places of interest and other locales in the area.  Add to that things like going to the supermarket, visiting the local towns for all manner of needs, gardening, housework, visitors, visiting, family demands, staying in for goods deliveries (it's amazing how much we shop for online these days) and all the normal infills of daily life and you've got quite a full diary.


Oh dear this is becoming a bit of self-indulgent, self-analysis, but what I did want to say was I'm feeling not entirely in control of my own options at the moment and a strategy for the next few months is to tamp down the 'busy bee-ness'.  I need to get to a place where every couple of weeks I get a bit bored ...then the missing activities will start to plug in and light up, I hope!  Or maybe I'll learn to sit and read the paper all day.....or more likely do yoga much more frequently on a daily basis and do some proper meditation too (I just play at it occasionally, I need to get serious!!).


Little did you know your few simple questions would get such a dump of stuff, Jbee!!!!!!!!!!!!


John