Bare Journeys

What Do nudists do? We Run, or Walk in Nude 5Ks. We do this five times a year: twice at Star Ranch near Austin; once each at Wildwood and Bluebonnet northwest of Fort Worth and at Oaklake Trails between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. There was a time that we had 8 races per year.

So you’ve decided that traveling to clothing optional resorts this summer is a much better idea than standing in a four hour line for a three-minute ride at Disney World. Good choice! Vacationing at nudist resorts or “Nakations” are all the rage these days!

What do nudists do? We bowl naked. In my case I bowl once a year when Hill Country Nudist sponsor a nude bowling night at the oldest bowling rink in Austin. If it were a chance to be nude, I would play a game of Go Fish.

To me business is business, but there are mobile RV repairmen who refuse to go to a clothing optional resort. One time at Cedar Creek Resort in South Carolina, we couldn’t get a repairman to come look at our motorhome because his girlfriend wouldn’t let him!

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.