Both times we've lived off grid, I was able to stroll outside nude at will. That was so freeing even just to know I could at anytime. Now, though, we live in a mobile home park in the city. With as small as our yards are, and as close together as the units are I'd give our sweet little old lady neighbor a thrill and a heart attack at the same time.
Living out in the rural part of the area the traffic is about zero overnight and my neighboring homes are separated with a bit of property between us all. So I am able to walk down the road to the paper box in the early morning without incident. I will too at times while down there stroll down the road and back but not by the other homes. If a car would come i have plenty of trees and bushes to step into until it passes.
Got home late last night after going to the movies and picking up our motorhome from storage. It's been hot here the last several days and it made the inside of our closed up motorhome very warm. Wouldn't have made a difference anyway but I got in to drive it home and stripped right away. Once home, I exited the motorhome completely naked with clothes in hand. Being that it was so late, I walked back and forth from the house to the coach numerous times and didn't worry about being naked. Great feeling, as though we actually lived in a nudist community!
Some of our most favorite night walks were on the beach at Club Orient. An after dinner walk and even a couple of late night walks when we couldn't sleep. We even took in a couple of late night dips in the bay. The cool water, cool breeze felt refreshing. We'd walk back to our unit and take an outdoor shower together and that usually did the trick. We were able to fall asleep!
We always took a lap around the loop at Cypress Cove ( Cypress Mill drive & Sun Cove drive ) about a mile before breakfast and sometimes after dinner, if we didn't have too much wine. We used to stay for a couple of weeks, spending a couple of days there then one day of outing to one of the theme parks or other attraction.
I don't know why it did double pictures!
What a wonderful feeling to be able to take a stroll for an hour or so every morning with my coffee, without a concern. Occasionally I would pass or chat with the other early risers, the occasional employee starting their day and the pool guy. What a great community!
This sounds fantastic, getting chills just thinking about participating in those walks. Sigh...
Jeff
I don't do this as often I used to, although I am often out in the back yard after dark when the dog wants out. I have neighbors in the back who usually have a bright security light on so I'm not as likely to be out if that light is on, same for a full moon.
I used to take walks at night in the neighborhoods I have lived in over the years. Once I was asked by a couple I encountered where my pants were. That was bit amusing.
I have other stories as well, I'll save for another time.
As a young lad, I was woken up by someone calling out a name from a house down the street. It was easy to see the naked man crossing the road away from his house. Wondering what he was doing, I watched as a naked woman ran from the dark house and stood looking around in the middle of the road. Something was wrong of course, but it was only when I went down to the front door and the automatic light there came on, that the still naked woman came up our path and told me her husband was sleepwalking and she'd lost sight of him. I was naked as well, but she went one way up the road and I went the other, looking for him. Walking down the middle of the street looking from side to side, I felt like a gun fighter in one of those old western movies, but a couple of hundred yards proved he wasn't around that area, so we came back together outside their house and she went to get some clothes on and her car keys to widen the search. Some minutes later, she came out with a tray of mugs of tea and some bisquits, grinning and explaining that he was now fast asleep in bed as usual. From then on, I'd keep an eye on the road and if she passed by walking her dog, she'd grin and wave. I don't think he was told about that incident, he'd wave and sometimes come over to our fence to chat and let me pet their animal. I don't think they were nudists, the light wasn't that good to notice and I can only say that probably did contribute to my later becoming a nudist myself. Just part of life.
Another incident happened some years later. Occuping my uncles house for a long period that summer so I could look after their tropical fish and small dog, I was entirely free to be nude all the time and enjoy the garden for outdoor sunbathing in fine weather. Still with some imagination, I cleared a rough and nasty patch of wild blackberry bushes from behind the garden shec and simply pushed out the rusty nails holding the wooden slats of the fence so the boards could be moved to either side allowing access to the tangled greater mass on the other side which the golf club had let grow wild and out of control.
Having cleared a narrow track through that mess, I could venture out and explore the whole golf course as I liked. Not many golfers play golf in the dark, so Id wander out after tea, find an interesting spot to strip off and enjoy the sunsets and go for walks as total darkness settled in. Rolling around on soft grass was just one of the delights, playing in the sand traps and rather braving the cold depths of the water hazards really cant be beaten. I did get lost of course, but it was easy to mask a normal torch with some coloured sweety paper and hang it over the fence so I could have a homing beacon for getting back again.
It was no trouble to use one of the kids cloth sports bags to take with me, putting my clothes in it when I stripped nude and carry it with me anwhere I happened to venture. That didnt get boring or dull. One night, I found an old sleeping bag and took that out to sleep in over night. That was a bit of a chilly one, but the sky was clear and I spent most of the night looking up at the huge expanse of stars overhead and probably well into another existance completely. Of course I walked into some invisble hazards, but nothing too dangerous or horrible, even the foxes and rabbits were there as well but they usually kept their distance anyway.
If we need a difference between being naturists and nudists, nature by day or night simply cant be trumped, its all free and only needs finding. Behing the same house, it was easy to walk around the church yard and down the passage to the allotments. Always a good place to be naked and have one or two ripe carrots or berries to much on. I did cross the church yard a few times, but tripping over someones monument and getting a nasty cut on my toe, sorted that out pretty quickly.
How often do we enjoy these experiences and want confirmation were not entirely silly or stupid? While were all trying to find enjoyable company to share being naked with, add a dose of this sort of excitement and any benefit is magnified substancially. Lots of women want to be socially nude, but even with their prefered companion, dont have anywhere to go. Some men constantly worry about erections when nude outdoors or anywhere not entirely private. Having a fantasy while able to be naked and free outdoors in the dark, is not a problem and Ive found it rather fine to climb up a rather splendid tree and feel the night breeze everywhere. What is MY Normal, I might post other events but there can only be one limit, and Im not dead yet.