Bare Journeys

A few weekends ago I flew to Tampa and got a shuttle to near Land ‘O Lakes, FL. When I was not in the AANR meetings I roamed the Lake Como Resort grounds. If David Letterman knew about Lake Como, he would call it “a happenin’ place.”

One of the perks of having a Laguna del Sol gold membership is the chance to spend 15 days per year at their sister resort Mira Vista outside Tucson without paying day fees. My wife and I recently spent two days at the lovely Mira Vista Resort.

Yes, Nudists really do attend meetings where they work to promote and protect family social nudism. At Star Ranch Nudist Resort I recently represented the Southwest Region of AANR International as I’m chair of the Planning and Goals Committee.

I was one of the founders of a Nudist Travel Club called Arizona Wildflowers. Everyone is passionate about something – I happen to be passionate about nudity and body acceptance. We camped, hiked, boated, traveled in motor homes, and even attended a number of clothed activities.

Cypress Cove Nudist Resort, one of the largest and most well-known nudist resorts in North America, is hosting a nude yoga retreat on May 17-19 at the resort grounds in Kissimmee, Florida. Titled “The Body Sacred,” the weekend-long retreat will feature two of the leading figures behind the growing nude yoga movement in the U.S.

Since the American Nudist movement began nearly one hundred years ago, nudists have worked diligently to educate society about the difference between showing the human body in a natural way versus exploiting it as a sexual object. There really is such a thing as wholesome nudity.

I went back to Faywood the day after Christmas. Some more recent history of Faywood: Several years after Elon and Wanda re-opened Faywood Hot Springs, Elon died. Wanda continued to run the place a couple of years while trying to sell it.

The Hiking Oregon Naturally Annual Tour known as HONAT, began as an idea to replicate the Nude European Walking Tour (NEWT) that my wife and I participated in during the summer of 2016.

Faywood Hot Springs offers clothing optional soaking tubs and cabins for overnight accommodations. Faywood is between Deming and Silver City, New Mexico, about 25 miles north of I-25. There is a trail between the two cities for great clothing optional hikes in the desert.

Florida has long been known as the “Nudist Capital of North America”, with our high concentration of naturist clubs on the west coast of Florida. However, nudity on South Florida Public Beaches is also quite popular. The four beaches that I will discuss here are all officially sanctioned as Nude Beaches and as long as your behavior is appropriate.