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Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« on: May 12, 2017, 07:03:15 AM »
We continue our travels in celebration and then on to Quartzite to visit a nude book dealer, a vast expanse of desert flowering, and then Prescott.
https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2017/05/12/tonopah-continued-a-trip-report/
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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2017, 08:57:58 AM »
Towards the end of yet another trip report which leaves me totally jealous of your walking opportunities you mentioned the one FRN experience where I have the lead on you.

       
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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2017, 03:52:28 PM »
We continue our travels in celebration and then on to Quartzite to visit a nude book dealer, 
Jbee 


A nude book dealer?    One doesn't see nude merchants very much these days.  It would be worth the trip just to encourage and support his store.

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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2017, 09:33:12 PM »
I was there to admire, encourage and support his store. We had discussed nude shopping on the way there, but had to get a feel for the situation, which was flatly not possible, with Quartzite Town Council politics. It was out of the way for us, but worth that, not to mention I love books.

I shopped nude in the store in Club Orient, St. Martin in 1985. At De Anza there is a very small store which is more of a kiosk, a restaurant and the bar in the clubhouse. I always enjoy the liberating feeling, and the sometimes, "Something feels amiss" sense in public nudity and everyday activities. Showing up and checking in at a resort is always a fresh experience nude. One day, I'd like to visit a large place like Cap D'age and shop and bank and experience a sense of something similar to a more perfect world order. I remember when we had SANS house parties, it was strange to find myself walking around someone else's house naked. Others would make the same comment. Barefoot is like that but less the striking experience. So, I guess that is one thing good and really fun thing to be said about life on the nudist reservations.

It is a bit irrational and fearful of the authorities to relieve the proprietor to the bare minimum of state law, but threaten a hassle for one of his customers for the same behavior. One guy is okay, but two is out of hand...One is an eccentric, but two is a movement? DF and I would have been so on to it if the opportunity was available. As I remember the police stopped by the parking lot, but that may be a good thing, all and all.
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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2017, 05:36:48 PM »
The authorities? It's getting old already! But if I ever make it out there again I will be sure to visit that bookstore if only to lend my support! There could be volumes written here of the attempts of our local governments to shut down various establishments here. Most get thrown out of court or have lost because the laws are too vague.
 I'm too lazy to go between windows here but isn't there a place in the area known as the Magic Circle where naturists camp in the desert? I want to have a vague recollection that snowbirds stay out there for part of the winter. now I'll have to search through the archives of my bucket list as it is written down somewhere.
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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2017, 05:44:41 PM »
There's a website for the Magic Circle:
http://magiccircleaz.net/

Maybe some of the Arizona members here know the place.

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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2017, 03:57:34 PM »
Amy and I were married there, nude of course.

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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2017, 04:01:43 AM »
This was in the AZ Daily Star, about the Ironwoods, which are mentioned in this trip report. There are related articles about the area.
http://tucson.com/news/local/ironwood-trees-senior-citizens-of-the-desert/article_2f5e74fb-2039-5eea-91af-285a129bdd88.html

There are now 120 plus miles of two lane asphalt bike path along the local rivers (mostly dry). I didn't know that they were getting so expansive. They are getting into more remote and "private areas. evenings under a full moon would require a very minimal attair, If that. from my experience along the Rillito. Hmmm.....
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Re: Tonopah Continued: A Trip Report
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2017, 08:10:06 PM »
You posted this report on the "Olde Site". Thanks for bringing it back.

The hike out in the desert near Quartzite looks more familiar to me. The remoteness and isolation has always appealed to me. Don't know why!

I remember watching that video of the owner playing the piano.

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