May 7, 2025 • 64 mins
In this refreshingly candid episode I (Patti Hunt) sit down with Steve and Steph from the YouTube channel The Naked Nomads, a couple who decided clothing optional resorts was the best type of campground for them. Then 4 years ago they sold it all and started full time in their RV, staying in clothing optional campgrounds. Today they answer the questions people are wondering about the clothing optional lifestyle.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What happens when the campground dress code says none
required.
I'm Pettie Hunt and you'relistening to the RV Life Podcast
.
Just a heads up this episodedoes include some adult content,
(00:21):
so you may wanna have thelittle ones not around for this.
A little bit about me.
Four years ago, my husband, dan, decided that it would be a
great idea to sell everything,get an RV and travel the country
.
After I laughed, I realized hewas serious and decided what the
heck?
And I went along with it and wedid just that.
(00:44):
For over three years wetraveled back and forth across
the country three and a halftimes and it was an amazing
experience.
As a lot of people may know, hebecame ill a year ago, so it is
now just me traveling by plane,by car I think I'm going to
travel by train and maybe hop ona boat here and there to travel
(01:08):
around.
I'm going to try it all andthen I stay in campgrounds and
cabins and yurts and retro RVs.
So I'm experiencing this RVlife from a whole different
perspective.
Now, the other thing that I'veadded is a YouTube channel and
it is called Inspired Travelswith Patty, where you could see
(01:28):
some of my guests or some of thepodcast episodes.
You could see my guests,today's guests.
I will put on the YouTubechannel so you could see them.
But I do have to tell you thatthis particular episode there
will be no videos at campgroundsthat are clothing optional.
So sorry about that, but that'snot going to happen.
(01:49):
Today I bear it all.
Well, figuratively, my guest,the Naked Nomads, and I explore
the world of clothing optionalcampgrounds.
This has been something that Isee often on social media.
People talk often about becausethere's a lot of curiosity
around it.
So today I decided we need totalk about it.
(02:13):
So, steve and Steph, why didyou choose clothing optional
campgrounds?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To not have clothes on.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Just put it like that I hate clothes.
I don't like wearing clothes.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know how, when the kids grow up in your empty
nest and you're like, wow, wecan walk around the house naked,
well, you get used to thatfeeling and think, wouldn't it
be cool to do that outside?
And we kind of happened on iton a whim.
He had wanted to try it out fora while and I was a little
(02:49):
skeptical about it, but we endedup, you know, diving in and we
never looked back.
It's the most liberating bodypositivity experience that you
could hope for.
It really is.
You'll meet some of the mostwonderful people, completely
nonjudgmental.
It's very different thanprobably most people expect it
to be.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And that's what we're going to dive in, because today
we're going to demystify theworld of clothing optional
campgrounds.
But before we do, I do want toshare about these five
incredible campgrounds.
You do need to wear clothes atleast when you're outside of
your RV, but they are greatcampgrounds and they are the
(03:30):
open road resorts.
They have locations in Idaho,nebraska, new Mexico and two
locations in Texas.
All five of these campgroundsare highly favored parks and
they're highly favored by you,the RVers.
They're highly favored on theRV Life Campgrounds Review site
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and you could go check them allout on campgroundsrvlifecom or
go to openroadresortscom to findout all about these five
incredible parks.
Today's guest, the Naked Nomads,a married couple on a
one-of-a-kind journey across thecountry, exploring clothing
(04:11):
optional resorts and sharingtheir experiences with a growing
community of curious souls.
In the four years they havebeen adventuring, they have met
amazing people and helpedhundreds of people explore the
textile-free world.
Through the Naked Nomadswebsite and social media outlets
(04:31):
, they offer real-world insights, helpful guidance and honest
reviews for anyone interested inthe clothing optional lifestyle
, whether you're a seasonednaturalist or just beginning to
wonder what it's all about.
Their travel goes beyond tours.
It's a journey into bodypositivity, authentic human
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connection and the incrediblesense of freedom that comes from
embracing yourself and thenatural world.
Along the way, they've met someof the kindest, most genuine
people, proof that when youstrip away the outer layers,
what's left is the real beautygood souls, open hearts and a
deep sense of belonging, sharingthe magic that happens when you
(05:19):
let go of expectations andreconnect to what truly matters.
Welcome, steve and Steph, tothe RV Life podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thanks for having us, thanks for letting us educate
people on the life of nudity.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It is so great to have you.
I know we've met a couple yearsago and we have run across each
other's paths several times.
We saw each other in Tampa,tampa and I went back to the
team.
So for those people don't know,the RV Life podcast I have an
executive producer and producers, so there's a team of people
(05:55):
that I talk to about.
You know what's a good topicfor my RV Life listeners, and
when we talked about clothing,optional campgrounds, it was a
absolute yes.
So many people are interestedand curious and want to know
what it's all about.
So today we are going to coverit all.
(06:17):
Well, we're going to try Beforewe start.
You guys have been RVers forfour years, full-time.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
RVers for four years.
Full-time RVers for four years.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Full-time RVers for four years, thank you, take us
back to that time.
What was the conversationbetween the two of you who
decided that full-time RVing wasthe way to go?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, it kind of happened again, as most really
big life decisions happen notnecessarily by planning.
When COVID hit, my job wentcompletely remote and, being the
creative person I was I am Ithought, well, I could pretty
much work from anywhere.
And shortly after that,stephen's work had a buyout and
(07:04):
I thought you know what?
Let's crunch some numbers,maybe because the kids we were
empty nesters, the kids had allleft the home and we had a huge
six-bedroom house on three and ahalf acres.
We were spending hours everyday keeping up for who?
For no one.
We didn't need all that house,we didn't need all that land.
We didn't need all that land.
And I crunched some numbers andthought you know what we can do
(07:26):
this?
We can go on the road, live outof a nice motor home.
We do come back to sunny restin the Pocono area for the
summer, where we have a separateseasonal spot.
But we figured we could do thisfinancially.
Let's go ahead and sell thehouse and hit the road.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Financially, let's go ahead and sell the house and
hit the road.
So where did the naked part,the naturalist part, come in?
Were you like that before youstarted the whole RVing, or was
that something that started thatcame?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
in.
Probably.
Well, for you it was, for me itwas.
I wanted to be naked my wholelife.
I started sleeping nude when Iwas a young kid, got told if I
got up and go to the bathroom inthe middle of the night I had
to put clothes on because I gotcaught once.
Mom didn't like that too much,so I've always been a nudist my
whole life.
And then probably well, this isour 14th season.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, at Sunday Rest.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So we started going to the nudist resort before we
sold the house years and yearsbefore we sold the house.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
10 years, almost 10 years, yeah, and it was once we
got there.
It was funny because the day wedecided to actually take the
plunge and go, he was in a badmood and we had heard the
commercials for the naked beerfest.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Go to the nudist resort yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And I was like you know what?
Do you just want to go to thisNaked Beer Fest?
And he's like you really wantto go.
And I was like you know what,make a decision now before I
change my mind.
And we got there and it was alittle intimidating at first.
I got to say I mean, we weren'tsure exactly what to do.
You know, did we take ourclothes off now and put them in
the trunk, do we?
If there are there a lot.
(09:03):
He asked if they were lockers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You know so.
So wait, I'm going to stop youa second this.
You're talking about your veryfirst very first time, okay, so
I just want to be clear yourfirst time.
He's not even in a good mood.
There's a naked beer fest insunny rest first time and you
say, okay, let's go.
So that's what I want to pointout is all the things that go
through your head when you getthere.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay.
So I had it in my head.
You know, I planned for it inmy head.
Okay, we're going to be nakedin front of people.
People are going to be naked infront of us.
Just process that.
So I'm processing it.
He, of course, has wanted to dothis for years.
We pull up to the gate.
They take our license, ourinformation.
(09:46):
They do some places do runbackground checks this
particular one they take yourlicense and information and so
forth.
Then the gate lifts and youstart to drive through and
there's a naked man walking downthe hill and Stephen goes oh my
God, he's naked and I was likehoney, we're at a nudist resort.
He says.
But I didn't expect to see itso soon.
So it's definitely it's not.
(10:11):
It's something that most peopledo have to ease into because you
know it's just not somethingyou're socially used to seeing.
But the minute you meet thepeople there and they're looking
at you face to face, eye to eye, they're not looking you up and
down like somebody you know outat a nightclub or whatever
would be doing.
(10:32):
It's a very life-changingexperience.
It's you meet the kind ofpeople that you never thought
even existed, like completelynonjudgmental, nobody cares what
your body looks like Nobodycares what size you are, nobody
cares about anything.
And we meet so many people thatsay, oh, I couldn't go there
because I'm fat, I couldn't gothere because my body is saggy.
(10:55):
Nobody cares and it's so hardto process that, but literally
nobody cares or judges and it'sjust a very liberating
experience.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The one thing I do want to point out that I think
now I've done a lot of research.
Again, over the last couple ofyears the topic has come up a
number of times.
I've heard groups of peopletalking about it.
Done some research.
One thing I want to emphasizeis the fact that you pulled up
to a security gate.
So security that is what I'veheard to a security gate.
Oh yeah, security that is whatI've heard is a big thing.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, big thing.
They try to protect everybody'sprivacy.
Every nudist place we've goneto, a resort or park, you're
always behind gates.
Yeah, and it's always—.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No pictures allowed.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No pictures If you start doing anything goofy like
that, you're immediatelyescorted off the property.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And while most nudist resorts do allow single
individuals to come in again,some do a background check.
They always take at least yourlicense information and if
anyone ever reports, this guyjust feels creepy, or this guy
is making advances, or even awoman, for that matter.
(12:07):
They get booted immediately andsometimes never let back in
again.
It is extremely.
One of the biggest goals ofevery nudist resort is to make
their guests feel comfortable,because it's difficult enough,
you know, walking around nakedin front of people that, in most
cases, you've never met before.
You do need to have some senseof security, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Absolutely, and I've got to say when I was in my
years of dating, walking into abar was more sometimes difficult
, you know with guys at advancesand it sounds like it is being
naked at a resort, okay, okay.
So we've thrown some wordsaround.
We said clothing optional, wesaid naturalist and we said
nudist.
So for people that this is allnew to, can you kind of break
down the meaning of that, ofthose things?
(12:58):
How are they different?
You know, just to, to, to thebest of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They're all the same as one, yeah for the most part.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Now, there is a difference between a nudist
resort and a clothing optionalresort, Even though people, even
us people in the community, usethem interchangeably.
Technically, a nudist resortyou have to be nude unless it's
cold.
Nudist resort you have to benude unless it's cold, and then
they just want you to wear arobe or a wrap or, like I'm
wearing a sarong, which is thenudist clothing of choice other
(13:31):
than a robe.
Clothing optional you'reallowed to have clothing on
throughout the resort, usuallyeverywhere, except in the pool
or hot tub.
In the pool or hot tub, mostplaces you must be nude, and
most of the reason for that isbecause they don't want people
just coming there to look.
They want people who really wantto be part of the community.
(13:53):
They understand that a lot ofpeople are new to it and, you
know, may feel a little insecureat first.
So they allow you to wearclothing, but they want you to
be part of the community.
They don't want you to justcome in and observe and kind of
be creepy.
Right, right, exactly.
So that's the reason formandating nudity in the pools
(14:15):
and Sunny Rest the one we go toin the summer is clothing
optional.
You'll see people there all thetime with clothes on.
Especially in Pennsylvania,especially in the Pocono
Mountains, it gets chilly evenin the summertime at night.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
When the sun goes down.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
yeah, yes, yes.
So now, naturalist is adifferent, a little different,
if I'm not mistaken.
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, that's more.
Most naturalists or naturistswant to be nude all the time and
most of the naturist typeresorts are in the South because
it's their life.
They are open year round and itdoesn't really get cold enough
to have to put on clothes allthe time.
It's slightly different vibe,it's I don't want to use the
(14:56):
word hippie, but it's kind oflike that very laid back, chill.
But most places it's really amix.
There aren't too many resortsthat are completely one way or
the other.
Most of them are a mix andeverybody gets along and
everybody respects one another'svalues and beliefs.
Some people think that some ofthe resorts are clicky.
It's really because you formsuch a bond with the people in
(15:20):
your community that you don'talways with the people in your
community that you don't always,you know, aren't always as
welcoming to others.
But for the most part, everynudist resort you come into it,
people will talk to you, peoplewill ask you questions, people
will answer your questions,people will be completely honest
with you.
It really is just like.
(15:41):
It's kind of like theneighborhood you always wanted
to grow up in, but naked.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay, okay, I can't quite picture that, but okay,
I'm thinking of the neighborhoodI grew up in.
Okay, so that's something tothink about.
All right, let's go back toyour first time.
So you go through this securitygate, you go in.
Did his mood change at all?
Let me ask that.
(16:07):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It went from grumpy to what the heck am I doing?
I like to be naked, but I'm notsure I want to be naked around
a hundred other people.
I don't know At that point.
Well, Beer Fest is probably athousand other people, I don't
know.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So talk a little bit about that.
There is that.
You know, I think with anythingthat's new, it's like, yeah,
this is great.
And then you get there and thereality sets in.
And you even talked about, okay, do you take your clothes off
and leave them in the trunk,like, talk people through that
who are thinking of doing this.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I had it in my head that you know, you remember the
old airport lockers.
You put your quarter in, youget your key out, put everything
in and you come back, or theamusement park lockers.
I'm like, ah, they got lockersdown there, we'll get undressed
down there.
And we start walking throughthe parking lot and there's a
couple getting undressed attheir trunk and throwing their
clothes in the trunk and I'mlike, well, I guess we're going
(17:04):
back to the car to get naked.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, and I was definitely as we walked down
towards the office because theparking lot was just above the
office where we had to check inand I was very apprehensive
because I did not have a verygood body image.
I've had four children.
I've given birth four times, so, as you can imagine, I'm not a
Barbie doll.
I was a little self-consciousbut we found as soon as we got
in there there was a vendorselling those belly dancing
(17:29):
wraps, like the little with thechingy changs, and I bought one
of those and I just suddenlyfelt that was the only anxiety
that I had was about like my mombelly, and I just felt so much
better than and then I couldrelax.
But once you actually meetpeople and talk to people, you
completely forget you're nakedand you forget they're naked and
(17:50):
I know that's very hard formost people to process.
It's not something I candescribe and that's somebody who
hasn't been through it canunderstand.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You have to go experience it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, you have to experience it, go experience it,
it's the same as going in a hotair balloon.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I could talk you through it, but the experience
is not something that you canexplain.
You have to experience ityourself.
So when you went to Sunnyrest,you didn't have an RV.
Where did you stay while youwere there?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We lived 20 minutes away oh okay, we were just
driving out.
We had to do day passes.
We had a pop-up at that point.
We'd take the pop-up here andthere every couple of weekends,
here and there, and then weupgraded to the fifth wheel.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, so by the end of Our first time was at the end
of June, and by the end of thefirst season in August, we had
purchased a membership.
And was it that season, the endof that season?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
we got our seasonal spot.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There are some people that come there and get a
seasonal spot, like the firstyear they're there because it's
just, it's addicting, it's, it'sjust so much fun.
In a sense it's it can be likean adult playground you know
zooming around on your golfcarts and you know drinking
around the campfire.
We have open mic nights wherepeople play their instruments,
(19:14):
very talented people in thenudist community, because, as
you can imagine, if you can getnaked in front of someone,
getting up on stage is nothingRight, and getting up on stage
naked in front of people, Justput your audience naked, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I was just going to say that I was just standing in
bed with a friend of mine whowas speaking and he was sharing
how he gets nervous and I saidwell, do you do that thing where
you picture everybody naked?
So I guess this is verydifferent.
You're naked, they are reallynaked, so what could go wrong?
Like you know, there's I guessfears are gone.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they do naked karaoke.
There's open mic At Sunny Rest.
There are bands, probably everytwo or three weekends live
bands.
There's a pavilion, they have anightclub, a tiki bar, pools,
hot tubs, you know, and mostnudist resorts run anywhere.
Almost everyone, probablyeveryone, has at least a pool,
(20:13):
unless you're talking about someof the naturist clubs which are
really just an open likecampground type.
Very, you know, most of peopletent, they don't RV, but most of
the ones, if it's called resort, then it at least has a pool,
good to know.
And all of them have, you know,at least a pool, a hot tub and
a little place to gather whetherit's a clubhouse or something
(20:34):
like that.
A lot of potluck dinners, ifvery, actually very few nudist
resorts have liquor licenses andsell alcohol.
Most of them are BYOB and thenin the community we're going to
have potlucks and then they havedifferent activities.
Almost all of them have somekind of a calendar of events,
just like a regular campgroundreally.
(20:56):
I mean, it's really not a wholelot different than a regular
campground, but the people aremuch nicer and I'll get more
going.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And so and again, we're talking about sunny rest
and it's funny that you guyslive a couple hours from me, if
that, and Sunnyrest is probablyonly a couple hours away In the
campground, so you could go likeyou said.
You could get a day pass and Iwould imagine a lot of the
resorts have day passes.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Can you tent and are there rental type situations if
you want to stay?
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
At Sunnyrest in particular, there's tent camping
, there are motel rooms, thereare cabins that you can rent
either for the weekend or forthe season, and then there are
transient RV sites.
Some of them are paved, some ofthem are natural.
There's a bathhouse, very muchlike a regular campground
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bathhouse, only this one hasinside showers and outside
showers open showers.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Because if you're already naked, what to resist?
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, and honestly, one of the most amazing feelings
is an outdoor shower.
It really is.
It maybe takes some gettingused to for people, but most
people who have seasonal sitesthere have an outdoor shower on
their deck.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, okay, All right, Then this is all good
information.
And again, different resources.
Like a campground where youhave to wear your clothes I
don't want to say regularcampground has different types
of amenities, different types ofrentals, things like that.
So it's really going to dependon the campground.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Where you go?
Yeah, like where we're at now.
We're in Louisiana now at aplace called Indian Hills Nudist
Park and they have RVs you canrent, they have tent site, they
have cabins and again you canjust come in for the day.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, or you can stay .
We're here for two months everyyear because we just love it.
It's very close proximity toNew Orleans.
It's about a little more than ahalf minute to New Orleans, so
there's a lot to do.
It's South Louisiana, slido,and there's just so much to do
here, and the food's amazing andthe people are amazing, and the
people are amazing.
(23:13):
So we love it here.
That's why we stay every spring.
The weather's beautiful in thespring, starts to get hot and
muggy just about now, so that'swhen we book it back up to
Pennsylvania for the summer.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And in the Poconos.
It's beautiful in the summermonths.
Okay.
So I'm going to ask a questionnow and again for those people
who are listening that havelittle kids.
You might want to have themleave the room.
A lot of people are wondering.
So when people are walkingaround naked, the question is is
there sexual activities that goon?
(23:46):
some people I've I've seen havesaid oh, it's like a big orgy,
give us people that say thathave never, never been right,
and that's why I'm asking youguys because, again, I'm looking
at the questions and commentsthat are on people's minds and
when you know I have thisconversation about.
This is what we're going totalk about on the RV life
(24:06):
podcast.
These are the things thatpeople could ask, that they're
wondering and you know going onsocial media and talking about,
even though they don't know thetruth.
So give us the truth of whatyou've experienced.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So I like to say there's really three different
kinds of nudist campgroundresorts experiences Experiences.
There are the ones that arevery naturist oriented, where
nothing sexual is tolerated,including touching your own
husband on the shoulder, notbeing able to kiss your wife.
(24:52):
You can't kiss your wife in thepool, you can't be sitting next
to you or holding hands in thepool like they want absolutely
no contact whatsoever.
And then there are.
There do exist some resortsthat entertain the swinger
lifestyle.
Very few, actually, probably alot fewer than most people think
, and really those are more likelifestyle clubs that are also
clothing optional.
(25:12):
They're not really nudistresorts.
So if you think of someplacelike Caliente is a popular one,
where's that?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's in Tampa, outside of Tampa.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, atlanta Lakes, that is a lifestyle club that is
also clothing optional.
They market towards thelifestyle crew.
They have areas where peoplecan explore their sexuality and
again, that is also not a bigorgy.
It's mostly couples likeexploring their own fantasies
(25:48):
and their own.
You know a little bit ofvoyeurism, a little bit of in
their own.
You know a little bit ofvoyeurism, a little bit of
exhibitionism, that kind ofthing.
But it's not what most peopleprobably think and that's like
the far end of the spectrum,right.
(26:08):
There's a couple of others thatare close to that, but nothing,
not a whole lot, that reallycater to that lifestyle.
Most nudist resorts fallsomewhere in between, and most
of the reason for this is thatmany nudist resorts belong to an
organization called ANR,american Association for Nude
Recreation, and part of thecriteria for being a member as a
resort is that you cannotcondone sexual activity in the
(26:32):
common areas.
So there's no sexual activityin the pool areas, the
restaurants, if they have them,things like that.
What you do in your own camper,just like in your own home, is
up to you, but the overall vibeat most nudist resorts is not
sexual at all.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, I just really wanted to debunk that myth
because, so many people, you'rewelcome.
And I was like, how do I saythis?
Tactfully, honestly, but justto say it because that is the
theme that comes up over andover again.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Every time we find somebody new, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, and I think there are people that
aren't looking for it.
They want to go into, like youguys talked about, a campground,
be naked, be in nature and nothave to worry about somebody
propositioning.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And you don't Nine times out of ten.
If somebody comes up to you andasks you if your lifestyle or
if you'd be interested inhooking up with them or whatever
, you tell them no, they'llleave you alone.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you can still be friends, you can still be
friends.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Still be friends, but that's different than being in
a bar.
Yeah, very different, verydifferent.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And you know, somebody keeps coming up to your
wife and making advances at herand she's told them no three or
four times.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Then you got to your wife and make advances at her
and she's told them no three orfour times.
Then you got to step in and goyeah, hey, and in in public it's
less likely that somebody'sgoing to back you up, but in a
in a nudist community, um, if,if someone sees someone, even if
it looks like some a woman'sbeing harassed, any one of the
community will come up and verytactfully handle the situation
and if it pers, then the persondoes get thrown out.
That's good to know.
That is good to know.
Yeah, we all take care of ourown here, everybody, in fact.
(28:20):
It's funny because you do seeand this may be surprising to
people you do see a lot ofpeople with high stress jobs and
, honestly, one of the biggesttenants of the nudist community
is that you don't generally knowwhat people do for a living,
nor do you care.
You're looking to know them as ahuman and when you strip the
clothes you really can't seewhat some of the social classes
(28:43):
or any of that.
But you do get a lot of highstress jobs teachers, police
officers, lawyers, doctors,nurses, lots of nurses.
So it's really a community inthe sense that anything you need
, there's somebody there when hebroke his ankle last year, two
o'clock in the morning we founda nurse that had bandages.
(29:04):
There was an orthopedic surgeoncamped across from us that
helped to keep him comfortableuntil the morning when we could
take him to the urgent center.
So it's that kind of thing.
It's like you have and we hadno idea.
The guy in front of us was anorthopedic surgeon.
Like we had no idea, we justthought he was a guy right, you
know that day yeah.
(29:25):
It's.
It's just funny who you meetand you don't know who you're
talking to until you know theopportunity comes up.
But we absolutely take care ofeach other in every way.
You know, if somebody passesbecause there are a lot of older
people in the nudist communitythey'll have their funeral and
(29:46):
service outside of the communitybut they'll also have one
inside to commemorate theirclothing optional family right
Because we are truly like acrossthe country, really because
people travel and we see peopleall over the place that we know
from other places.
It's a small world.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, yes.
So I want to talk more aboutthat.
I know there are certain rulesand etiquette.
You touched on the organizationfor nudist resorts and I want
to give people tips if this issomething they want to dip their
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Let's talk more about this.
(31:11):
So not only are peopleliterally stripping away their
clothes which, like you said,that identifies people look at
somebody and they say they makejudgments sometimes not accurate
judgments, because based on theway somebody's dressed, you get
this idea well, they're this orthat.
It's just something people dothat, unless you're aware of it.
(31:35):
It's almost subconscious.
So people come in, most peoplewill get undressed and people
don't know if I'm talking to adoctor or a janitor, the teacher
that's had a rough week.
I was a teacher so I couldrelate to that nurse, whoever
you're talking to, because itsounds like that's not even the
(31:57):
conversation that comes up.
It's not that important.
You could just be you and kindof get away from your life, your
own life, and just have thissort of freedom is the word that
comes to mind for me.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I mean we've even met a few celebrities.
We can't name names, obviously,because that's another thing.
That's big in the nudistcommunity is personal privacy.
We don't no one talks about whothey see right or who's there.
When we're together we'reobviously all there for the same
purpose, but outside you neverreveal a friend.
(32:32):
Like if you see someone in thegrocery store which is odd
enough to see them with clotheson.
You know.
If you have to explain tosomeone they're with, it's like
oh, I know them.
Sometimes we usually just saywe know them from camping.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Right, leave it at that.
So that brings up another.
You know another point,somebody who, let's say, is a
teacher, I know as a teacher, Iactually signed what was called
a morality clause, which, at theend of the day I didn't read
the fine print, I'm not exactlysure what that means.
So you know, I guess my concernwould be being at a club like
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that and then seeing anotherteacher, or, god forbid, the
principal of the school.
How do you address?
Or God forbid the principal ofthe school.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
How do you address that?
Here's the way I explain thatIf they're there and they see
you, they're there for the exactsame reason you are.
Yeah you'll keep each other'ssecret.
So you're going to keep eachother's secret.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Everybody's always so worried about what if I see
somebody I know?
Well, if you see somebody, youknow one.
It's going to make you eithervery uneasy or a little bit more
comfortable that you knowsomebody.
And oh, I didn't know, youliked to be naked.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
And it's not like, honestly, there's nothing
immoral going on, and that'swhat's confusing to those of us
in the community is that thereare people out there that see
nudity as an immoral thing.
But that's how we're born, whichis actually our tagline live as
you're born, you know that'show you're going to go out,
right, so it's just the skinyou're born in.
(34:01):
I mean, we have so many issuestoday with, especially, women
who are ashamed of their bodiesor need to feel the need to
mutilate or change their bodiesin some way because they aren't
comfortable in the skin they'rein.
And this community will justmake you feel better about it
because you're in a communitywhere nobody honestly cares and
(34:24):
nobody honestly judges it does alot for your morale, for your
confidence.
This community breeds strongwomen.
It's just a very enlighteningexperience, a very positive
experience for women and men.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And I would address two things.
And then, steve, I'll bring youin First of all the fact that I
had to sign a quote-unquotemorality clause.
I am going to be verytransparent and say I do not
think being in a campground andbeing naked is a morale,
morality thing at all.
That's, I'm putting my thoughtsand opinions out there.
(35:03):
That's my thought and opinion.
How a school could have yousign this?
And then who gets to decidethat?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're not going to go down that rabbit hole.
We could go down, but I lovewhat you were saying about body
positivity.
But, steve, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
So two years ago we were sitting in a pool and a
bunch of us just talking aboutyou know how we found the nudist
lifestyle and everything.
And there was a bigger lady inthe pool with us, found the
nudist lifestyle and everything.
And there was a bigger lady inthe pool with us and, uh, she
goes.
I, I once I found the nudistlifestyle.
It's the best thing I couldever.
I ever could have imagined shegoes.
Imagine we're sitting in a barand I'm sitting at the bar by
(35:45):
myself.
You wouldn't come up and talkto me as a bigger woman.
You'd all sit down there andboth.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Sorry, wow, steve you had one rule you can talk about
sex, but you can't curse.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And talk to everybody down there and I go.
I probably say hi, but you'recorrect, I probably wouldn't
come up and have a full onconversation with you, but as
we're sitting in a pool, we allsit and talk with each other and
she goes.
I can come here and talk withanyone and nobody sees me as a
bigger woman.
Everybody sees me just as anequal.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And it goes for more than just body as well.
I being a neurodivergent personmyself, I see a lot of
neurodivergence in the communitybecause Explain what that is to
my listeners.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I'm familiar with the word, but you're using that
word.
What that is to my listeners.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I'm familiar with the word, but you're using that
word.
Explain that to my listeners.
So I have ADHD and I havechildren who have ADHD and
autism and there are just quirkythings about us that aren't
always socially acceptable.
That when you're in thiscommunity where nobody's judging
anything, um, you're just ifyou want to dance around and be
(36:57):
yourself and do crazy things,like impulsive little things,
like pick up toads or countducks, which I do okay, nobody
judges you.
Like if you want to dress insome crazy costume, because
there are a lot of themedparties where people dress up in
costumes Neon night, neon nightMost people don't wear clothes,
(37:18):
they just put body paints allover them, but things like that.
So it's a place that not onlyyou can be yourself, you can
express yourself the way youwant, and that goes forward to
like other, like we seetransgender people and you don't
(37:39):
think anything of it, you justdon't and nobody judges and
everybody feels comfortable and,as Stephen was saying, that's
why a lot of people come,because they're not judged like
they are in public and peopletalk to them and I can almost
guarantee you it saved a fewlives.
It sounds like a ridiculousthing, but I almost guarantee
(37:59):
you there's also a lot of peoplethat come because they have
depression and it gives them aplace where they can feel wanted
and loved and cared about andnot judged.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
And I think it's so important and actually it's a
huge thing for me.
I've worked in a schooldistrict with at-risk youth.
I heard the stories they werehigh school students how they
felt about themselves, theirbodies and some of it was their
(38:34):
own thoughts in their head, andwe know that.
You know, even as a grown up,how I think about myself.
You know, and I'll be honest, Igo through some of the same
thing.
I was, I had three kids.
My body is not what it used tobe and I judge myself, and I
probably judge myself more thanother people judge me.
(38:56):
That's a usual thing, thatthat's what people do.
So the whole idea of you knowstripping away all of that
because not only do we judgepeople's bodies and what they
look like, but we're judgingwhat they're wearing, how
they're wearing their clothes,what kind of clothes, what brand
(39:16):
of clothes you know that's just.
The society we live in is veryjudging about people.
Being quirky or weird is just.
I think we all have some ofthat and whether we're diagnosed
and labeled, I think everybodyhas some quirky weirdness.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And I've.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I've gotten to the point where I'm just embracing
my being weird sometimes and I'mso okay with it.
Years ago, if somebody had saidI was weird, oh my God, that
would have devastated me and youknow, and again, I'm just
really sharing honestly becauseI realized years ago that the
most confident people I saw,these people standing on stage
(39:56):
with such confidence.
They look perfect, they dressedwhat I thought was perfect,
they acted perfect, theycouldn't possibly have a
negative thought in their headand when I talked to them
one-on-one, the realization thatthey were scared to death.
They didn't feel that way.
They judged themselves.
It's just something that I wantmore information out there.
(40:19):
Not everybody has to go to anudist or clothing optional
campground, but to find placesthat they feel comfortable in
their own skin.
I want to read this quote thatyou said, that I said in the
edification.
That really touched me, and itsays proof that when we strip
away the outer layers, what'sleft is the real beauty good
(40:41):
souls, open hearts and a deepsense of belonging, sharing the
magic that happens when you letgo of expectations and reconnect
with what truly matters, and Iwish for people that they could
embrace this Again.
None of us are trying to promotesomebody going to a clothing
optional campground.
Everybody should do what feelsright for them.
(41:04):
But again, the whole idea is todemystify what people think
goes on.
And you know, talking moreabout that idea about being able
to just talk to somebody Iguess I'm an introvert and an
extrovert.
(41:24):
Just give him the time of day,the day of the week, whatever's
going on for me.
So there are times I'd love tobe with people and interact.
We sat and had a conversationtogether and I'd love that.
And then there are times I needto retreat and don't want to
talk, just want to help.
Be that, be an introvert andnot socialize.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, it's me too, like at Tampa.
You know when we, when we metup with you at Tampa, you know
we're we Like at Tampa.
You know when we met up withyou at Tampa, you know we did
the content creator it was a lotand we did the RV show.
It was an interaction.
Stephanie will just look at meand go okay, I think I'm done
peopling.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I can't people anymore, exactly, exactly.
You can't people anymore.
Not try to promote us, but aclothing optional space where
you get that opportunity to getrid of the you know, the masks,
the anything that's going on andjust be, and people accept
(42:21):
whatever that is.
I would imagine that if youdecide you're not peopling that
day, that others are okay withit.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
They're not Absolutely Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You know, and so I think everybody needs to find
that kind of space where theycan go, you know, to be the
introvert or to just, you know,be themselves, and I think so
many people are looking to findwhat that is, and this is such
an important topic.
May is, I believe it's calledNational Mental Health Month.
It is Okay.
That's what I thought, and Ithink when we touch on mental
health and again I'm going downa road we didn't talk about, but
(42:59):
as it comes up, you know yousaid people, places like this
has probably helped savepeople's lives.
I agree.
I believe it Just based on whatyou're saying about being able
to go into a place where youdon't feel judged, when you
don't have to beat yourself upwhen you don't.
You know that it's a of themost difficult things,
(43:21):
especially when it's somebodyclose to you, and a lot of it is
because of how they think.
People think of themselves.
It's usually so often notaccurate, and so if a place like
(43:45):
this, if somebody's out therelistening and they're feeling
low and they're feeling down,maybe this is something for them
to explore.
Low and they're feeling down.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
maybe this is something for them to explore,
yeah, and you'll know within aday whether it's for you or it
isn't.
It's for some people, it's notfor others and, to be completely
honest, there's nobody outthere saying, oh, come to all
the nudist resorts, we want youto be there if you want to be
there, right.
But if it's not for you andyou're not feeling comfortable,
you know nobody wants you tofeel uncomfortable.
(44:13):
We're going to try our best tomake you feel comfortable, right
, but you know it's not foreverybody and that's perfectly
fine.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
And I'd like that.
You said you could ease into itA lot of these places that are
clothing optional.
You could go in, you could getcomfortable, decide, you know if
you want to take your clothesoff, and then you know if you
want to take your clothes off,and then you know if not, and
you don't feel comfortable.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
You can always leave.
Just turn around and you'llprobably even feel more like the
weird one walking around withclothes on because, everybody
else is naked.
Yeah, then you thinkeverybody's looking at me
because I have clothes on andthey're not right.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
No judgments, right.
Okay, so now you guys have beento campgrounds across the
country over the last four years.
Yeah, how do you find them?
I know we touched a little biton the organization and AANR
Talk a little bit more aboutthat and how you go about
finding campgrounds that youknow would fit your needs.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
A lot of it's word of mouth or just Googling
campgrounds.
When we first set out and I wasplanning our trip, I Googled a
lot.
I knew Louisiana was going tobe a halfway spot between
Florida and Texas.
Where is there a nudist resortin Louisiana?
There's only one, there's onlyone, and we're here and we found
(45:32):
it and fell in love with theplace.
But Google's a lot and word ofmouth.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, well, we're working on.
Obviously, on our website wehave a ton of it says reviews,
but we don't like to think ofthem as reviews because we're
not judging, we're not saying,oh, this is better than that one
.
We're going to let you knowwhat's there, what the vibe is,
what the amenities are, what youcan expect.
It's more like a guide than areview, because everybody's
looking for something different.
(45:59):
Right, we want to be that groupthat helps you find what you're
looking for.
You know we're not looking topull you in one direction or the
other, but we definitely wantto provide that information.
At some point I'll have a nicehandy guide with like a matrix
with checkboxes of what resortsoffer what and where they are
and all that good stuff.
(46:19):
Been working on that for awhile, but eventually I'll get
it posted to the website.
But, as Stephen said, you know,like, for instance, we use the
RV Life app to plan our tripevery year, right, and we do
actually go to what we calltextile campgrounds regular
campgrounds in between, becausewe can't always find, as we
(46:40):
we're traveling, a place to stopalong the way, because there's
not a lot.
There are certain states thathave several nudist resorts and
certain states that have noneand even, as Stephen was saying,
they're actually sometimesdifficult to find.
If you know what they're called, sometimes you can Google them,
but it is very difficult tofind a good, solid list of all
(47:01):
the news resorts around thecountry and, just like any other
business, some of them close,some of them new ones open.
So sometimes you find one andthen you come to find out it's
not there anymore or it's turnedtextile.
So we do go to textile resortsas well.
We use the RV Life app to planthe whole thing.
(47:23):
So I actually have to add all ofthe nutrition resorts as custom
stops.
But when I do that, I do fillout the little card with the
information on it, so that'shelpful as well.
Hopefully we can get some moreclothing optional places listed.
Maybe they'll have to tag themwith a certain color so people
don't accidentally reserve atone and not knowing it's
clothing optional, because mostof them don't say that in the
name of the resort, like SunnyRest Resort just says Sunny Rest
(47:45):
Resort.
We've had a few people show upnot realizing it was clothing
optional, because they needed aplace to stay up for the night.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Okay.
So warning to people whenyou're booking a campground and
you don't want it to be clothingoptional, you really need to
just read, because I wouldimagine sunny rest website do
your homework.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Sunny rest website oh yeah, as soon as you go on the
website, it says clothingoptional, but the name of the
resort does not say that I didnot know.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I had to warn my listeners about that.
Thank you, that's a great tipin louisiana it's called indian
hills nudist park.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, okay, so that's a great tip.
In Louisiana, it's calledIndian Hills Nudist Park.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
That's a little more obvious.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
They don't all call themselves that Some place like
Cypress Cove is a reallybeautiful place in Kissimmee,
about 20 minutes from Disney.
It's a beautiful resort,beautiful with its own lake and
free paddle boats and all kindsof fun stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Whispering Pines yeah .
Speaker 3 (48:44):
There's actually a Whispering Pines that's clothing
optional, and then there'sanother one that's not clothing
optional.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
So you have to be careful which one you're booking
at.
They're kind of close to eachother and they're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
They're in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, whispering Pines is in North Carolina,
north Carolina, yeah, northCarolina.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah, which is about 40 minutes north of Myrtle Beach
.
That's another beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
So people can go to your website and it's Naked
Nomads.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
TheNakedNomadscom.
Thenakednomadscom.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Great, so people could go there.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
Check out my skydiving onYouTube.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
Yeah, the naked skydiving.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
That's a fun event.
That's another event we havecoming up.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Okay, naked skydiving .
Where is that Naked skydiving?
Speaker 2 (49:28):
That will be at Sunnyrest.
This will be our third yeardoing it.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Wait.
So how do you get that onYouTube?
Speaker 3 (49:43):
A lot of editing, a lot of editing, a lot of editing
.
Okay, and honestly, the strapscover a lot of the area.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yes, we'll leave it to people's imaginations.
If you need to accelerate yourbucket list.
Speaker 3 (49:52):
You can check off two things with naked skydiving.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yes, yes, there you go.
I think I'm going to pass onthat one, but it might be
interesting to come check out.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Oh, we get just as many people watching as we do
jumping.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
We get probably more people watching than jumping.
I'll bet we do a long weekend.
We have about 50 jumpers everyyear and then we probably have a
couple hundred that come andwatch, or even watch from their
homes in the surrounding areas.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You can't really see anything when you're a tiny
little dot in the sky.
But right, right not july 9thand 14th this year.
So yeah, if you're interested,sign up, check it, check it out
it's.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
It's making its way around facebook, so okay, I'm
not skydiving safe to say I amnot doing that, we will talk.
This podcast is definitely livein the moment, minimal editing
and there it is for everybody tohear.
Okay, so I don't even knowwhere we were.
(50:52):
We covered a lot, we coveredsafety.
They have security.
The community as a whole reallycares about the people yeah we
talked about.
You know that, that it is alittle nerve-wracking the first
time you go, do you take yourclothes off, do you not?
Speaker 3 (51:10):
and the answer is do what feels right for you,
because what you're mostcomfortable with there's no rule
, always remember to bring atowel yes, oh, number one rule
always bring a towel.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
So when you go to somebody's house or you're
sitting down in the chair, youhave something to sit on.
Okay, good, rule no bare bottomon a chair.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
Okay, that is good to know.
Anything else, any other bigtips to?
Speaker 3 (51:32):
share with people.
Well, along with that, nudistsare probably the cleanest people
you'll ever meet in your life.
Okay, that is really good toknow.
I mean, people think about that.
Oh, I don't mind Somebody'sdirty, but sitting on my chair?
Well, first of all, they're.
They're bringing a towelbecause there is not one nudist
out there that will let you sitin any chair without a towel.
(51:53):
Okay, and you know.
Second of all, people, I meanyou're already naked.
You just hop in the shower acouple times a day, right,
especially if it's hot.
It's, I mean, above all, really, the community is no matter
where you go, where in thecountry, because that was part
of our curiosity when we we wereat Sunny Rest for almost 10
years.
When we ventured out to otherplaces, we thought there's got
(52:16):
to be other places like this,and I will say that Sunnyrest is
still our favorite.
Indian Hills is probably aclose second.
The sense of community, thefeeling of non-judgment, the
connection with nature, which wedidn't really get into, and
it's more me thing than a himthing.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah, she's a nature.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
I've always been a barefooter, so I really like
that connectivity with nature.
I actually have my workstationset up outside under a canopy
and I work outside every day.
So when it's when the weather'sgood, which, since we travel,
we basically chase 75, we chasegood weather.
Yeah Well, I like to be morethan 70, but whatever good
(52:59):
weather, I like to be more than70, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yes, I do as well.
The sense of community is Sunny.
Rest is very big on community.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
All of them really are.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Sunny Rest.
We've got a lot of ladies thathave gone through breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
In June we do a big motorcycle ride.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
They put their big motorcycle ride for the ladies.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Are they naked on the road?
Speaker 2 (53:24):
No, we do sometimes put clothes on, Okay okay.
We're normal people.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I didn't know if it was like in the campgrounds.
No, no.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
It's a big poker run yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
There's one for the blue.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
The back to blue.
The back to blue.
So Kevin puts that together.
I believe in August, june isthe Save the Tatas.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
And there's a few hundred bikers.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
And we do all kinds of like at Sunnyrest.
Anyway, we do all kinds offundraisers for the community.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
There's even a couple there that does it across the
country.
Okay, would fundraisers for thecommunity.
Yeah, um, there's even a couplethere that that does it across
the country.
Okay, would that be on yourwebsite.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Those events, uh, those would be on sunny.
Those would be on the restwebsite.
The skydiving will be onskydiving on ours, that's our
event.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
That's, yeah, it's our event that um sunny rest and
pegasus skydiving uh.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Sponsor so, okay, wow sounds this?
This is information that Idon't think I know I wasn't
expecting.
I would imagine my listenersweren't quite expecting all of
this and yeah, you know, forboth of us, like I'm just, I
want my listeners to askquestions, whether it's you guys
on your social media, thennaked nomads, or on my social
(54:38):
media, the Naked Nomads, or onmy social media, rv Life Podcast
on Instagram and Facebook.
We are not done, but I justwant to make sure that, if this
led to additional questions,that people have a place to
reach out and ask thosequestions.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
We really are just normal people, yeah, and if you
go on our website, we have acontact us page, of course, and
that goes to a big clearinghousewhere all of our requests go in
.
And then we also have FacebookMessenger, and Instagram
Messenger are popular placeswhere people reach out to us.
We do have that disclaimerimmediate automated response,
(55:16):
but we will get back to you,yeah, so anything anybody wants
to know any questions that theyhave, they can use either of
those, any of those formats.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
That and and again, we encourage people to reach out
, because this is something thatyou know people are could be
looking for, because they arefeeling judged or they're
feeling bad about themselves,and so that's certainly a part
of this conversation that Idon't think a lot of people were
expecting, but I could seewhere it would be very
(55:45):
beneficial to so many people.
And you want to say young girlsthat have these images about
their body, but it's not.
It's men and women and it'sgrown people that have these
feelings about themselves.
Speaker 3 (56:03):
A lot of women going through divorces come out
because they just want to feelbetter about themselves and it's
a place to go.
If you can handle it and ifyou're into it, you'll know
right away if you need a supportsystem, because people are
going to support you thereregardless of you know what's
(56:25):
bothering you.
But, yeah, just a verysupportive environment.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
So is it now single woman?
Speaker 3 (56:33):
It is a place that, as a single woman, I could go to
, oh absolutely, you're safer ina nudist resort than you are at
any public, than thesupermarket.
Great, if somebody seessomebody coming on to you,
they're going to go up and sayhey, excuse me, patty, how are
you?
Are you okay?
You know, can I help you outwith anything?
(56:54):
You know?
Whatever, just to get the vibe.
And you can either use that asyour, you know know, yeah, let's
uh get me away from this guykind of thing, right?
And if it's, and if it's evenmore than that, then you know
the guy will get spoken to andor removed from the premises,
depending on the extent of thenature of the incident.
Speaker 2 (57:12):
But, um, and that's you tell me you're fine and go
away yeah, and I just go getanother drink and it doesn't
even have to be a sexual advance.
Speaker 3 (57:19):
It can really just be somebody's following you around
and asking you a lot ofquestions.
They want they.
Every nudist place.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
Um wants everyone to feel comfortable and safe, and
that's great to know, because Iknow I've walked into bars, even
with my wedding ring on, or aclub, or you know, and had more
of an issue than it sounds likeI would have there.
Oh, absolutely, we could talkon and on forever.
I'm sure there'll be otherquestions and if you guys get
(57:47):
questions, share them with me soI could post on my social media
.
And again, we are not done yet.
You guys cannot go anywherejust yet.
I do want to.
It's now time for the questionof the week and this is for you
guys.
I don't prepare you ahead oftime, so I'm going to ask the
question.
Give you a minute to thinkabout it.
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Okay, so you guys bucket listskydiving naked.
It sounds like that's.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
We're kind of living in our bucket list?
Speaker 1 (59:23):
Yeah, it sounds like it.
So is skydiving naked somethingnew, have you?
Speaker 3 (59:28):
ever done.
I wouldn't mind going to othercountries.
We get a lot of followers,especially on Instagram places
in Ireland, australia.
Germany is huge.
Germany has a lot of newdisplaces.
Most european countries don'thave any hang-ups about clothing
.
They're not as hung up as yeah,there's tons of places on the uh
(59:48):
, you know, on the other side ofthe world.
So if there's anything that wehaven't experienced, that would
probably be it right now.
Logistically, uh, since we livein a motor home, we'd have to
park it and pay to have itparked somewhere while we go
somewhere else, whichtechnically isn't any different
than paying your mortgage andtaking a vacation.
Right, but yeah, that'sprobably the only thing I can
(01:00:10):
think of Ireland for me.
Yeah, Ireland Big one.
Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Skydiving was a big bucket list for me and I did
skydiving before with clothes on, but to do it naked was awesome
.
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Oh yeah, that was amazing.
Oh wow, the only other thingthat I could think of is and I
just lost it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Okay, well, if you think of it.
So stay with me because I'mgoing to talk about the
campground of the week and thiscampground.
You do need to wear clothes forthis campground.
It is brought to you by RV Life.
We talked about the RV Lifesuite of products that you guys
use.
We'll have to talk to RV Lifeabout adding naked campgrounds
(01:00:56):
to their filter.
I don't know if that's possible.
The owner listens to theepisode, so we'll see what he
has to say about that.
But this week's featuredcampground is St George,
hurricane KOA, in Hurricane,utah.
It is a Thousand Trails Park,but you do not need to be a
member to stay.
St George, hurricane KOA.
(01:01:18):
The landscape is absolutelyincredible.
It reveals millions of years ofgeologic history and
breathtaking views.
I started looking at thesepictures of what's around this
campground and absolutelybreathtaking is the only word I
could think of.
(01:01:39):
They have 123 sites, they do afull hookups and if you don't
have an RV, like me, I could gorent a cabin while I'm there.
They have a solid 7.3 rating onthe RV Life Campgrounds website
, with 190 reviews, so if youwant to hear what the RVers that
have stayed there actuallythinking what their thoughts are
(01:02:02):
, then you could check out thereviews.
And what's really nice is it'seasy to book this campground
because you go tocampgroundsrvlifecom type in St
George, slash, hurricane, koa,and then you could see all of
the photos.
They have a full list of theamenities about the property.
(01:02:22):
Everything you need to know isright there and what's even
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, campgrounds, resorts, city,state, national parks and Corps
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It doesn't have nudist parksyet, but maybe you could suggest
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There is a 25% discount link inthe show notes.
(01:03:08):
Guys, thank you so much forbeing on the show for all of the
information.
I know that you've reallycleared up a lot of the mystery
in the idea of clothing optionalcampgrounds.
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Thanks for having us, thanks for letting us educate
people on the life of nudity.
Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Yes, and again, any questions.
I want the listeners to reachout to you guys, whether it's
private message on your socialmedia.
Message me and let's sharethose questions and answers.
We'll leave names out of it andI will have them posted on my
social media just to get anyfurther questions answered for
(01:03:48):
people.
Put it out there to everyoneand I want to thank my listeners
and remind you life's a journey.
Live each day to the fullest,without regrets.
I'm Patti Hunt and you havebeen listening to the RV Life
Podcast.
What happens when the campground dress code says none
required.
I'm Pettie Hunt and you'relistening to the RV Life Podcast
.
Just a heads up this episodedoes include some adult content,
(00:21):
so you may wanna have thelittle ones not around for this.
A little bit about me.
Four years ago, my husband, dan, decided that it would be a
great idea to sell everything,get an RV and travel the country
.
After I laughed, I realized hewas serious and decided what the
heck?
And I went along with it and wedid just that.
(00:44):
For over three years wetraveled back and forth across
the country three and a halftimes and it was an amazing
experience.
As a lot of people may know, hebecame ill a year ago, so it is
now just me traveling by plane,by car I think I'm going to
travel by train and maybe hop ona boat here and there to travel
(01:08):
around.
I'm going to try it all andthen I stay in campgrounds and
cabins and yurts and retro RVs.
So I'm experiencing this RVlife from a whole different
perspective.
Now, the other thing that I'veadded is a YouTube channel and
it is called Inspired Travelswith Patty, where you could see
(01:28):
some of my guests or some of thepodcast episodes.
You could see my guests,today's guests.
I will put on the YouTubechannel so you could see them.
But I do have to tell you thatthis particular episode there
will be no videos at campgroundsthat are clothing optional.
So sorry about that, but that'snot going to happen.
(01:49):
Today I bear it all.
Well, figuratively, my guest,the Naked Nomads, and I explore
the world of clothing optionalcampgrounds.
This has been something that Isee often on social media.
People talk often about becausethere's a lot of curiosity
around it.
So today I decided we need totalk about it.
(02:13):
So, steve and Steph, why didyou choose clothing optional
campgrounds?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To not have clothes on.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Just put it like that I hate clothes.
I don't like wearing clothes.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know how, when the kids grow up in your empty
nest and you're like, wow, wecan walk around the house naked,
well, you get used to thatfeeling and think, wouldn't it
be cool to do that outside?
And we kind of happened on iton a whim.
He had wanted to try it out fora while and I was a little
(02:49):
skeptical about it, but we endedup, you know, diving in and we
never looked back.
It's the most liberating bodypositivity experience that you
could hope for.
It really is.
You'll meet some of the mostwonderful people, completely
nonjudgmental.
It's very different thanprobably most people expect it
to be.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And that's what we're going to dive in, because today
we're going to demystify theworld of clothing optional
campgrounds.
But before we do, I do want toshare about these five
incredible campgrounds.
You do need to wear clothes atleast when you're outside of
your RV, but they are greatcampgrounds and they are the
(03:30):
open road resorts.
They have locations in Idaho,nebraska, new Mexico and two
locations in Texas.
All five of these campgroundsare highly favored parks and
they're highly favored by you,the RVers.
They're highly favored on theRV Life Campgrounds Review site
(03:51):
and you could go check them allout on campgroundsrvlifecom or
go to openroadresortscom to findout all about these five
incredible parks.
Today's guest, the Naked Nomads,a married couple on a
one-of-a-kind journey across thecountry, exploring clothing
(04:11):
optional resorts and sharingtheir experiences with a growing
community of curious souls.
In the four years they havebeen adventuring, they have met
amazing people and helpedhundreds of people explore the
textile-free world.
Through the Naked Nomadswebsite and social media outlets
(04:31):
, they offer real-world insights, helpful guidance and honest
reviews for anyone interested inthe clothing optional lifestyle
, whether you're a seasonednaturalist or just beginning to
wonder what it's all about.
Their travel goes beyond tours.
It's a journey into bodypositivity, authentic human
(04:56):
connection and the incrediblesense of freedom that comes from
embracing yourself and thenatural world.
Along the way, they've met someof the kindest, most genuine
people, proof that when youstrip away the outer layers,
what's left is the real beautygood souls, open hearts and a
deep sense of belonging, sharingthe magic that happens when you
(05:19):
let go of expectations andreconnect to what truly matters.
Welcome, steve and Steph, tothe RV Life podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thanks for having us, thanks for letting us educate
people on the life of nudity.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It is so great to have you.
I know we've met a couple yearsago and we have run across each
other's paths several times.
We saw each other in Tampa,tampa and I went back to the
team.
So for those people don't know,the RV Life podcast I have an
executive producer and producers, so there's a team of people
(05:55):
that I talk to about.
You know what's a good topicfor my RV Life listeners, and
when we talked about clothing,optional campgrounds, it was a
absolute yes.
So many people are interestedand curious and want to know
what it's all about.
So today we are going to coverit all.
(06:17):
Well, we're going to try Beforewe start.
You guys have been RVers forfour years, full-time.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
RVers for four years.
Full-time RVers for four years.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Full-time RVers for four years, thank you, take us
back to that time.
What was the conversationbetween the two of you who
decided that full-time RVing wasthe way to go?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, it kind of happened again, as most really
big life decisions happen notnecessarily by planning.
When COVID hit, my job wentcompletely remote and, being the
creative person I was I am Ithought, well, I could pretty
much work from anywhere.
And shortly after that,stephen's work had a buyout and
(07:04):
I thought you know what?
Let's crunch some numbers,maybe because the kids we were
empty nesters, the kids had allleft the home and we had a huge
six-bedroom house on three and ahalf acres.
We were spending hours everyday keeping up for who?
For no one.
We didn't need all that house,we didn't need all that land.
We didn't need all that land.
And I crunched some numbers andthought you know what we can do
(07:26):
this?
We can go on the road, live outof a nice motor home.
We do come back to sunny restin the Pocono area for the
summer, where we have a separateseasonal spot.
But we figured we could do thisfinancially.
Let's go ahead and sell thehouse and hit the road.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Financially, let's go ahead and sell the house and
hit the road.
So where did the naked part,the naturalist part, come in?
Were you like that before youstarted the whole RVing, or was
that something that started thatcame?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
in.
Probably.
Well, for you it was, for me itwas.
I wanted to be naked my wholelife.
I started sleeping nude when Iwas a young kid, got told if I
got up and go to the bathroom inthe middle of the night I had
to put clothes on because I gotcaught once.
Mom didn't like that too much,so I've always been a nudist my
whole life.
And then probably well, this isour 14th season.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, at Sunday Rest.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So we started going to the nudist resort before we
sold the house years and yearsbefore we sold the house.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
10 years, almost 10 years, yeah, and it was once we
got there.
It was funny because the day wedecided to actually take the
plunge and go, he was in a badmood and we had heard the
commercials for the naked beerfest.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Go to the nudist resort yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And I was like you know what?
Do you just want to go to thisNaked Beer Fest?
And he's like you really wantto go.
And I was like you know what,make a decision now before I
change my mind.
And we got there and it was alittle intimidating at first.
I got to say I mean, we weren'tsure exactly what to do.
You know, did we take ourclothes off now and put them in
the trunk, do we?
If there are there a lot.
(09:03):
He asked if they were lockers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You know so.
So wait, I'm going to stop youa second this.
You're talking about your veryfirst very first time, okay, so
I just want to be clear yourfirst time.
He's not even in a good mood.
There's a naked beer fest insunny rest first time and you
say, okay, let's go.
So that's what I want to pointout is all the things that go
through your head when you getthere.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay.
So I had it in my head.
You know, I planned for it inmy head.
Okay, we're going to be nakedin front of people.
People are going to be naked infront of us.
Just process that.
So I'm processing it.
He, of course, has wanted to dothis for years.
We pull up to the gate.
They take our license, ourinformation.
(09:46):
They do some places do runbackground checks this
particular one they take yourlicense and information and so
forth.
Then the gate lifts and youstart to drive through and
there's a naked man walking downthe hill and Stephen goes oh my
God, he's naked and I was likehoney, we're at a nudist resort.
He says.
But I didn't expect to see itso soon.
So it's definitely it's not.
(10:11):
It's something that most peopledo have to ease into because you
know it's just not somethingyou're socially used to seeing.
But the minute you meet thepeople there and they're looking
at you face to face, eye to eye, they're not looking you up and
down like somebody you know outat a nightclub or whatever
would be doing.
(10:32):
It's a very life-changingexperience.
It's you meet the kind ofpeople that you never thought
even existed, like completelynonjudgmental, nobody cares what
your body looks like Nobodycares what size you are, nobody
cares about anything.
And we meet so many people thatsay, oh, I couldn't go there
because I'm fat, I couldn't gothere because my body is saggy.
(10:55):
Nobody cares and it's so hardto process that, but literally
nobody cares or judges and it'sjust a very liberating
experience.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The one thing I do want to point out that I think
now I've done a lot of research.
Again, over the last couple ofyears the topic has come up a
number of times.
I've heard groups of peopletalking about it.
Done some research.
One thing I want to emphasizeis the fact that you pulled up
to a security gate.
So security that is what I'veheard to a security gate.
Oh yeah, security that is whatI've heard is a big thing.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, big thing.
They try to protect everybody'sprivacy.
Every nudist place we've goneto, a resort or park, you're
always behind gates.
Yeah, and it's always—.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No pictures allowed.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No pictures If you start doing anything goofy like
that, you're immediatelyescorted off the property.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And while most nudist resorts do allow single
individuals to come in again,some do a background check.
They always take at least yourlicense information and if
anyone ever reports, this guyjust feels creepy, or this guy
is making advances, or even awoman, for that matter.
(12:07):
They get booted immediately andsometimes never let back in
again.
It is extremely.
One of the biggest goals ofevery nudist resort is to make
their guests feel comfortable,because it's difficult enough,
you know, walking around nakedin front of people that, in most
cases, you've never met before.
You do need to have some senseof security, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Absolutely, and I've got to say when I was in my
years of dating, walking into abar was more sometimes difficult
, you know with guys at advancesand it sounds like it is being
naked at a resort, okay, okay.
So we've thrown some wordsaround.
We said clothing optional, wesaid naturalist and we said
nudist.
So for people that this is allnew to, can you kind of break
down the meaning of that, ofthose things?
(12:58):
How are they different?
You know, just to, to, to thebest of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They're all the same as one, yeah for the most part.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Now, there is a difference between a nudist
resort and a clothing optionalresort, Even though people, even
us people in the community, usethem interchangeably.
Technically, a nudist resortyou have to be nude unless it's
cold.
Nudist resort you have to benude unless it's cold, and then
they just want you to wear arobe or a wrap or, like I'm
wearing a sarong, which is thenudist clothing of choice other
(13:31):
than a robe.
Clothing optional you'reallowed to have clothing on
throughout the resort, usuallyeverywhere, except in the pool
or hot tub.
In the pool or hot tub, mostplaces you must be nude, and
most of the reason for that isbecause they don't want people
just coming there to look.
They want people who really wantto be part of the community.
(13:53):
They understand that a lot ofpeople are new to it and, you
know, may feel a little insecureat first.
So they allow you to wearclothing, but they want you to
be part of the community.
They don't want you to justcome in and observe and kind of
be creepy.
Right, right, exactly.
So that's the reason formandating nudity in the pools
(14:15):
and Sunny Rest the one we go toin the summer is clothing
optional.
You'll see people there all thetime with clothes on.
Especially in Pennsylvania,especially in the Pocono
Mountains, it gets chilly evenin the summertime at night.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
When the sun goes down.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
yeah, yes, yes.
So now, naturalist is adifferent, a little different,
if I'm not mistaken.
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, that's more.
Most naturalists or naturistswant to be nude all the time and
most of the naturist typeresorts are in the South because
it's their life.
They are open year round and itdoesn't really get cold enough
to have to put on clothes allthe time.
It's slightly different vibe,it's I don't want to use the
(14:56):
word hippie, but it's kind oflike that very laid back, chill.
But most places it's really amix.
There aren't too many resortsthat are completely one way or
the other.
Most of them are a mix andeverybody gets along and
everybody respects one another'svalues and beliefs.
Some people think that some ofthe resorts are clicky.
It's really because you formsuch a bond with the people in
(15:20):
your community that you don'talways with the people in your
community that you don't always,you know, aren't always as
welcoming to others.
But for the most part, everynudist resort you come into it,
people will talk to you, peoplewill ask you questions, people
will answer your questions,people will be completely honest
with you.
It really is just like.
(15:41):
It's kind of like theneighborhood you always wanted
to grow up in, but naked.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay, okay, I can't quite picture that, but okay,
I'm thinking of the neighborhoodI grew up in.
Okay, so that's something tothink about.
All right, let's go back toyour first time.
So you go through this securitygate, you go in.
Did his mood change at all?
Let me ask that.
(16:07):
Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It went from grumpy to what the heck am I doing?
I like to be naked, but I'm notsure I want to be naked around
a hundred other people.
I don't know At that point.
Well, Beer Fest is probably athousand other people, I don't
know.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So talk a little bit about that.
There is that.
You know, I think with anythingthat's new, it's like, yeah,
this is great.
And then you get there and thereality sets in.
And you even talked about, okay, do you take your clothes off
and leave them in the trunk,like, talk people through that
who are thinking of doing this.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I had it in my head that you know, you remember the
old airport lockers.
You put your quarter in, youget your key out, put everything
in and you come back, or theamusement park lockers.
I'm like, ah, they got lockersdown there, we'll get undressed
down there.
And we start walking throughthe parking lot and there's a
couple getting undressed attheir trunk and throwing their
clothes in the trunk and I'mlike, well, I guess we're going
(17:04):
back to the car to get naked.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, and I was definitely as we walked down
towards the office because theparking lot was just above the
office where we had to check inand I was very apprehensive
because I did not have a verygood body image.
I've had four children.
I've given birth four times, so, as you can imagine, I'm not a
Barbie doll.
I was a little self-consciousbut we found as soon as we got
in there there was a vendorselling those belly dancing
(17:29):
wraps, like the little with thechingy changs, and I bought one
of those and I just suddenlyfelt that was the only anxiety
that I had was about like my mombelly, and I just felt so much
better than and then I couldrelax.
But once you actually meetpeople and talk to people, you
completely forget you're nakedand you forget they're naked and
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I know that's very hard formost people to process.
It's not something I candescribe and that's somebody who
hasn't been through it canunderstand.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You have to go experience it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, you have to experience it, go experience it,
it's the same as going in a hotair balloon.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I could talk you through it, but the experience
is not something that you canexplain.
You have to experience ityourself.
So when you went to Sunnyrest,you didn't have an RV.
Where did you stay while youwere there?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We lived 20 minutes away oh okay, we were just
driving out.
We had to do day passes.
We had a pop-up at that point.
We'd take the pop-up here andthere every couple of weekends,
here and there, and then weupgraded to the fifth wheel.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, so by the end of Our first time was at the end
of June, and by the end of thefirst season in August, we had
purchased a membership.
And was it that season, the endof that season?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
we got our seasonal spot.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
There are some people that come there and get a
seasonal spot, like the firstyear they're there because it's
just, it's addicting, it's, it'sjust so much fun.
In a sense it's it can be likean adult playground you know
zooming around on your golfcarts and you know drinking
around the campfire.
We have open mic nights wherepeople play their instruments,
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very talented people in thenudist community, because, as
you can imagine, if you can getnaked in front of someone,
getting up on stage is nothingRight, and getting up on stage
naked in front of people, Justput your audience naked, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I was just going to say that I was just standing in
bed with a friend of mine whowas speaking and he was sharing
how he gets nervous and I saidwell, do you do that thing where
you picture everybody naked?
So I guess this is verydifferent.
You're naked, they are reallynaked, so what could go wrong?
Like you know, there's I guessfears are gone.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they do naked karaoke.
There's open mic At Sunny Rest.
There are bands, probably everytwo or three weekends live
bands.
There's a pavilion, they have anightclub, a tiki bar, pools,
hot tubs, you know, and mostnudist resorts run anywhere.
Almost everyone, probablyeveryone, has at least a pool,
(20:13):
unless you're talking about someof the naturist clubs which are
really just an open likecampground type.
Very, you know, most of peopletent, they don't RV, but most of
the ones, if it's called resort, then it at least has a pool,
good to know.
And all of them have, you know,at least a pool, a hot tub and
a little place to gather whetherit's a clubhouse or something
(20:34):
like that.
A lot of potluck dinners, ifvery, actually very few nudist
resorts have liquor licenses andsell alcohol.
Most of them are BYOB and thenin the community we're going to
have potlucks and then they havedifferent activities.
Almost all of them have somekind of a calendar of events,
just like a regular campgroundreally.
(20:56):
I mean, it's really not a wholelot different than a regular
campground, but the people aremuch nicer and I'll get more
going.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And so and again, we're talking about sunny rest
and it's funny that you guyslive a couple hours from me, if
that, and Sunnyrest is probablyonly a couple hours away In the
campground, so you could go likeyou said.
You could get a day pass and Iwould imagine a lot of the
resorts have day passes.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Can you tent and are there rental type situations if
you want to stay?
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
At Sunnyrest in particular, there's tent camping
, there are motel rooms, thereare cabins that you can rent
either for the weekend or forthe season, and then there are
transient RV sites.
Some of them are paved, some ofthem are natural.
There's a bathhouse, very muchlike a regular campground
(21:54):
bathhouse, only this one hasinside showers and outside
showers open showers.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Because if you're already naked, what to resist?
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, and honestly, one of the most amazing feelings
is an outdoor shower.
It really is.
It maybe takes some gettingused to for people, but most
people who have seasonal sitesthere have an outdoor shower on
their deck.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, okay, All right, Then this is all good
information.
And again, different resources.
Like a campground where youhave to wear your clothes I
don't want to say regularcampground has different types
of amenities, different types ofrentals, things like that.
So it's really going to dependon the campground.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Where you go?
Yeah, like where we're at now.
We're in Louisiana now at aplace called Indian Hills Nudist
Park and they have RVs you canrent, they have tent site, they
have cabins and again you canjust come in for the day.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, or you can stay .
We're here for two months everyyear because we just love it.
It's very close proximity toNew Orleans.
It's about a little more than ahalf minute to New Orleans, so
there's a lot to do.
It's South Louisiana, slido,and there's just so much to do
here, and the food's amazing andthe people are amazing, and the
people are amazing.
(23:13):
So we love it here.
That's why we stay every spring.
The weather's beautiful in thespring, starts to get hot and
muggy just about now, so that'swhen we book it back up to
Pennsylvania for the summer.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And in the Poconos.
It's beautiful in the summermonths.
Okay.
So I'm going to ask a questionnow and again for those people
who are listening that havelittle kids.
You might want to have themleave the room.
A lot of people are wondering.
So when people are walkingaround naked, the question is is
there sexual activities that goon?
(23:46):
some people I've I've seen havesaid oh, it's like a big orgy,
give us people that say thathave never, never been right,
and that's why I'm asking youguys because, again, I'm looking
at the questions and commentsthat are on people's minds and
when you know I have thisconversation about.
This is what we're going totalk about on the RV life
(24:06):
podcast.
These are the things thatpeople could ask, that they're
wondering and you know going onsocial media and talking about,
even though they don't know thetruth.
So give us the truth of whatyou've experienced.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So I like to say there's really three different
kinds of nudist campgroundresorts experiences Experiences.
There are the ones that arevery naturist oriented, where
nothing sexual is tolerated,including touching your own
husband on the shoulder, notbeing able to kiss your wife.
(24:52):
You can't kiss your wife in thepool, you can't be sitting next
to you or holding hands in thepool like they want absolutely
no contact whatsoever.
And then there are.
There do exist some resortsthat entertain the swinger
lifestyle.
Very few, actually, probably alot fewer than most people think
, and really those are more likelifestyle clubs that are also
clothing optional.
(25:12):
They're not really nudistresorts.
So if you think of someplacelike Caliente is a popular one,
where's that?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's in Tampa, outside of Tampa.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, atlanta Lakes, that is a lifestyle club that is
also clothing optional.
They market towards thelifestyle crew.
They have areas where peoplecan explore their sexuality and
again, that is also not a bigorgy.
It's mostly couples likeexploring their own fantasies
(25:48):
and their own.
You know a little bit ofvoyeurism, a little bit of in
their own.
You know a little bit ofvoyeurism, a little bit of
exhibitionism, that kind ofthing.
But it's not what most peopleprobably think and that's like
the far end of the spectrum,right.
(26:08):
There's a couple of others thatare close to that, but nothing,
not a whole lot, that reallycater to that lifestyle.
Most nudist resorts fallsomewhere in between, and most
of the reason for this is thatmany nudist resorts belong to an
organization called ANR,american Association for Nude
Recreation, and part of thecriteria for being a member as a
resort is that you cannotcondone sexual activity in the
(26:32):
common areas.
So there's no sexual activityin the pool areas, the
restaurants, if they have them,things like that.
What you do in your own camper,just like in your own home, is
up to you, but the overall vibeat most nudist resorts is not
sexual at all.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, I just really wanted to debunk that myth
because, so many people, you'rewelcome.
And I was like, how do I saythis?
Tactfully, honestly, but justto say it because that is the
theme that comes up over andover again.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Every time we find somebody new, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, and I think there are people that
aren't looking for it.
They want to go into, like youguys talked about, a campground,
be naked, be in nature and nothave to worry about somebody
propositioning.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And you don't Nine times out of ten.
If somebody comes up to you andasks you if your lifestyle or
if you'd be interested inhooking up with them or whatever
, you tell them no, they'llleave you alone.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you can still be friends, you can still be
friends.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Still be friends, but that's different than being in
a bar.
Yeah, very different, verydifferent.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And you know, somebody keeps coming up to your
wife and making advances at herand she's told them no three or
four times.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Then you got to your wife and make advances at her
and she's told them no three orfour times.
Then you got to step in and goyeah, hey, and in in public it's
less likely that somebody'sgoing to back you up, but in a
in a nudist community, um, if,if someone sees someone, even if
it looks like some a woman'sbeing harassed, any one of the
community will come up and verytactfully handle the situation
and if it pers, then the persondoes get thrown out.
That's good to know.
That is good to know.
Yeah, we all take care of ourown here, everybody, in fact.
(28:20):
It's funny because you do seeand this may be surprising to
people you do see a lot ofpeople with high stress jobs and
, honestly, one of the biggesttenants of the nudist community
is that you don't generally knowwhat people do for a living,
nor do you care.
You're looking to know them as ahuman and when you strip the
clothes you really can't seewhat some of the social classes
(28:43):
or any of that.
But you do get a lot of highstress jobs teachers, police
officers, lawyers, doctors,nurses, lots of nurses.
So it's really a community inthe sense that anything you need
, there's somebody there when hebroke his ankle last year, two
o'clock in the morning we founda nurse that had bandages.
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There was an orthopedic surgeoncamped across from us that
helped to keep him comfortableuntil the morning when we could
take him to the urgent center.
So it's that kind of thing.
It's like you have and we hadno idea.
The guy in front of us was anorthopedic surgeon.
Like we had no idea, we justthought he was a guy right, you
know that day yeah.
(29:25):
It's.
It's just funny who you meetand you don't know who you're
talking to until you know theopportunity comes up.
But we absolutely take care ofeach other in every way.
You know, if somebody passesbecause there are a lot of older
people in the nudist communitythey'll have their funeral and
(29:46):
service outside of the communitybut they'll also have one
inside to commemorate theirclothing optional family right
Because we are truly like acrossthe country, really because
people travel and we see peopleall over the place that we know
from other places.
It's a small world.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, yes.
So I want to talk more aboutthat.
I know there are certain rulesand etiquette.
You touched on the organizationfor nudist resorts and I want
to give people tips if this issomething they want to dip their
toe into.
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Let's talk more about this.
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So not only are peopleliterally stripping away their
clothes which, like you said,that identifies people look at
somebody and they say they makejudgments sometimes not accurate
judgments, because based on theway somebody's dressed, you get
this idea well, they're this orthat.
It's just something people dothat, unless you're aware of it.
(31:35):
It's almost subconscious.
So people come in, most peoplewill get undressed and people
don't know if I'm talking to adoctor or a janitor, the teacher
that's had a rough week.
I was a teacher so I couldrelate to that nurse, whoever
you're talking to, because itsounds like that's not even the
(31:57):
conversation that comes up.
It's not that important.
You could just be you and kindof get away from your life, your
own life, and just have thissort of freedom is the word that
comes to mind for me.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I mean we've even met a few celebrities.
We can't name names, obviously,because that's another thing.
That's big in the nudistcommunity is personal privacy.
We don't no one talks about whothey see right or who's there.
When we're together we'reobviously all there for the same
purpose, but outside you neverreveal a friend.
(32:32):
Like if you see someone in thegrocery store which is odd
enough to see them with clotheson.
You know.
If you have to explain tosomeone they're with, it's like
oh, I know them.
Sometimes we usually just saywe know them from camping.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Right, leave it at that.
So that brings up another.
You know another point,somebody who, let's say, is a
teacher, I know as a teacher, Iactually signed what was called
a morality clause, which, at theend of the day I didn't read
the fine print, I'm not exactlysure what that means.
So you know, I guess my concernwould be being at a club like
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that and then seeing anotherteacher, or, god forbid, the
principal of the school.
How do you address?
Or God forbid the principal ofthe school.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
How do you address that?
Here's the way I explain thatIf they're there and they see
you, they're there for the exactsame reason you are.
Yeah you'll keep each other'ssecret.
So you're going to keep eachother's secret.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Everybody's always so worried about what if I see
somebody I know?
Well, if you see somebody, youknow one.
It's going to make you eithervery uneasy or a little bit more
comfortable that you knowsomebody.
And oh, I didn't know, youliked to be naked.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
And it's not like, honestly, there's nothing
immoral going on, and that'swhat's confusing to those of us
in the community is that thereare people out there that see
nudity as an immoral thing.
But that's how we're born, whichis actually our tagline live as
you're born, you know that'show you're going to go out,
right, so it's just the skinyou're born in.
(34:01):
I mean, we have so many issuestoday with, especially, women
who are ashamed of their bodiesor need to feel the need to
mutilate or change their bodiesin some way because they aren't
comfortable in the skin they'rein.
And this community will justmake you feel better about it
because you're in a communitywhere nobody honestly cares and
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nobody honestly judges it does alot for your morale, for your
confidence.
This community breeds strongwomen.
It's just a very enlighteningexperience, a very positive
experience for women and men.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And I would address two things.
And then, steve, I'll bring youin First of all the fact that I
had to sign a quote-unquotemorality clause.
I am going to be verytransparent and say I do not
think being in a campground andbeing naked is a morale,
morality thing at all.
That's, I'm putting my thoughtsand opinions out there.
(35:03):
That's my thought and opinion.
How a school could have yousign this?
And then who gets to decidethat?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're not going to go down that rabbit hole.
We could go down, but I lovewhat you were saying about body
positivity.
But, steve, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
So two years ago we were sitting in a pool and a
bunch of us just talking aboutyou know how we found the nudist
lifestyle and everything.
And there was a bigger lady inthe pool with us, found the
nudist lifestyle and everything.
And there was a bigger lady inthe pool with us and, uh, she
goes.
I, I once I found the nudistlifestyle.
It's the best thing I couldever.
I ever could have imagined shegoes.
Imagine we're sitting in a barand I'm sitting at the bar by
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myself.
You wouldn't come up and talkto me as a bigger woman.
You'd all sit down there andboth.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Sorry, wow, steve you had one rule you can talk about
sex, but you can't curse.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And talk to everybody down there and I go.
I probably say hi, but you'recorrect, I probably wouldn't
come up and have a full onconversation with you, but as
we're sitting in a pool, we allsit and talk with each other and
she goes.
I can come here and talk withanyone and nobody sees me as a
bigger woman.
Everybody sees me just as anequal.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And it goes for more than just body as well.
I being a neurodivergent personmyself, I see a lot of
neurodivergence in the communitybecause Explain what that is to
my listeners.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I'm familiar with the word, but you're using that
word.
What that is to my listeners.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I'm familiar with the word, but you're using that
word.
Explain that to my listeners.
So I have ADHD and I havechildren who have ADHD and
autism and there are just quirkythings about us that aren't
always socially acceptable.
That when you're in thiscommunity where nobody's judging
anything, um, you're just ifyou want to dance around and be
(36:57):
yourself and do crazy things,like impulsive little things,
like pick up toads or countducks, which I do okay, nobody
judges you.
Like if you want to dress insome crazy costume, because
there are a lot of themedparties where people dress up in
costumes Neon night, neon nightMost people don't wear clothes,
(37:18):
they just put body paints allover them, but things like that.
So it's a place that not onlyyou can be yourself, you can
express yourself the way youwant, and that goes forward to
like other, like we seetransgender people and you don't
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think anything of it, you justdon't and nobody judges and
everybody feels comfortable and,as Stephen was saying, that's
why a lot of people come,because they're not judged like
they are in public and peopletalk to them and I can almost
guarantee you it saved a fewlives.
It sounds like a ridiculousthing, but I almost guarantee
(37:59):
you there's also a lot of peoplethat come because they have
depression and it gives them aplace where they can feel wanted
and loved and cared about andnot judged.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
And I think it's so important and actually it's a
huge thing for me.
I've worked in a schooldistrict with at-risk youth.
I heard the stories they werehigh school students how they
felt about themselves, theirbodies and some of it was their
(38:34):
own thoughts in their head, andwe know that.
You know, even as a grown up,how I think about myself.
You know, and I'll be honest, Igo through some of the same
thing.
I was, I had three kids.
My body is not what it used tobe and I judge myself, and I
probably judge myself more thanother people judge me.
(38:56):
That's a usual thing, thatthat's what people do.
So the whole idea of you knowstripping away all of that
because not only do we judgepeople's bodies and what they
look like, but we're judgingwhat they're wearing, how
they're wearing their clothes,what kind of clothes, what brand
(39:16):
of clothes you know that's just.
The society we live in is veryjudging about people.
Being quirky or weird is just.
I think we all have some ofthat and whether we're diagnosed
and labeled, I think everybodyhas some quirky weirdness.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And I've.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I've gotten to the point where I'm just embracing
my being weird sometimes and I'mso okay with it.
Years ago, if somebody had saidI was weird, oh my God, that
would have devastated me and youknow, and again, I'm just
really sharing honestly becauseI realized years ago that the
most confident people I saw,these people standing on stage
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with such confidence.
They look perfect, they dressedwhat I thought was perfect,
they acted perfect, theycouldn't possibly have a
negative thought in their headand when I talked to them
one-on-one, the realization thatthey were scared to death.
They didn't feel that way.
They judged themselves.
It's just something that I wantmore information out there.
(40:19):
Not everybody has to go to anudist or clothing optional
campground, but to find placesthat they feel comfortable in
their own skin.
I want to read this quote thatyou said, that I said in the
edification.
That really touched me, and itsays proof that when we strip
away the outer layers, what'sleft is the real beauty good
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souls, open hearts and a deepsense of belonging, sharing the
magic that happens when you letgo of expectations and reconnect
with what truly matters, and Iwish for people that they could
embrace this Again.
None of us are trying to promotesomebody going to a clothing
optional campground.
Everybody should do what feelsright for them.
(41:04):
But again, the whole idea is todemystify what people think
goes on.
And you know, talking moreabout that idea about being able
to just talk to somebody Iguess I'm an introvert and an
extrovert.
(41:24):
Just give him the time of day,the day of the week, whatever's
going on for me.
So there are times I'd love tobe with people and interact.
We sat and had a conversationtogether and I'd love that.
And then there are times I needto retreat and don't want to
talk, just want to help.
Be that, be an introvert andnot socialize.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, it's me too, like at Tampa.
You know when we, when we metup with you at Tampa, you know
we're we Like at Tampa.
You know when we met up withyou at Tampa, you know we did
the content creator it was a lotand we did the RV show.
It was an interaction.
Stephanie will just look at meand go okay, I think I'm done
peopling.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I can't people anymore, exactly, exactly.
You can't people anymore.
Not try to promote us, but aclothing optional space where
you get that opportunity to getrid of the you know, the masks,
the anything that's going on andjust be, and people accept
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whatever that is.
I would imagine that if youdecide you're not peopling that
day, that others are okay withit.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
They're not Absolutely Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You know, and so I think everybody needs to find
that kind of space where theycan go, you know, to be the
introvert or to just, you know,be themselves, and I think so
many people are looking to findwhat that is, and this is such
an important topic.
May is, I believe it's calledNational Mental Health Month.
It is Okay.
That's what I thought, and Ithink when we touch on mental
health and again I'm going downa road we didn't talk about, but
(42:59):
as it comes up, you know yousaid people, places like this
has probably helped savepeople's lives.
I agree.
I believe it Just based on whatyou're saying about being able
to go into a place where youdon't feel judged, when you
don't have to beat yourself upwhen you don't.
You know that it's a of themost difficult things,
(43:21):
especially when it's somebodyclose to you, and a lot of it is
because of how they think.
People think of themselves.
It's usually so often notaccurate, and so if a place like
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this, if somebody's out therelistening and they're feeling
low and they're feeling down,maybe this is something for them
to explore.
Low and they're feeling down.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
maybe this is something for them to explore,
yeah, and you'll know within aday whether it's for you or it
isn't.
It's for some people, it's notfor others and, to be completely
honest, there's nobody outthere saying, oh, come to all
the nudist resorts, we want youto be there if you want to be
there, right.
But if it's not for you andyou're not feeling comfortable,
you know nobody wants you tofeel uncomfortable.
(44:13):
We're going to try our best tomake you feel comfortable, right
, but you know it's not foreverybody and that's perfectly
fine.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
And I'd like that.
You said you could ease into itA lot of these places that are
clothing optional.
You could go in, you could getcomfortable, decide, you know if
you want to take your clothesoff, and then you know if you
want to take your clothes off,and then you know if not, and
you don't feel comfortable.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
You can always leave.
Just turn around and you'llprobably even feel more like the
weird one walking around withclothes on because, everybody
else is naked.
Yeah, then you thinkeverybody's looking at me
because I have clothes on andthey're not right.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
No judgments, right.
Okay, so now you guys have beento campgrounds across the
country over the last four years.
Yeah, how do you find them?
I know we touched a little biton the organization and AANR
Talk a little bit more aboutthat and how you go about
finding campgrounds that youknow would fit your needs.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
A lot of it's word of mouth or just Googling
campgrounds.
When we first set out and I wasplanning our trip, I Googled a
lot.
I knew Louisiana was going tobe a halfway spot between
Florida and Texas.
Where is there a nudist resortin Louisiana?
There's only one, there's onlyone, and we're here and we found
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it and fell in love with theplace.
But Google's a lot and word ofmouth.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, well, we're working on.
Obviously, on our website wehave a ton of it says reviews,
but we don't like to think ofthem as reviews because we're
not judging, we're not saying,oh, this is better than that one
.
We're going to let you knowwhat's there, what the vibe is,
what the amenities are, what youcan expect.
It's more like a guide than areview, because everybody's
looking for something different.
(45:59):
Right, we want to be that groupthat helps you find what you're
looking for.
You know we're not looking topull you in one direction or the
other, but we definitely wantto provide that information.
At some point I'll have a nicehandy guide with like a matrix
with checkboxes of what resortsoffer what and where they are
and all that good stuff.
(46:19):
Been working on that for awhile, but eventually I'll get
it posted to the website.
But, as Stephen said, you know,like, for instance, we use the
RV Life app to plan our tripevery year, right, and we do
actually go to what we calltextile campgrounds regular
campgrounds in between, becausewe can't always find, as we
(46:40):
we're traveling, a place to stopalong the way, because there's
not a lot.
There are certain states thathave several nudist resorts and
certain states that have noneand even, as Stephen was saying,
they're actually sometimesdifficult to find.
If you know what they're called, sometimes you can Google them,
but it is very difficult tofind a good, solid list of all
(47:01):
the news resorts around thecountry and, just like any other
business, some of them close,some of them new ones open.
So sometimes you find one andthen you come to find out it's
not there anymore or it's turnedtextile.
So we do go to textile resortsas well.
We use the RV Life app to planthe whole thing.
(47:23):
So I actually have to add all ofthe nutrition resorts as custom
stops.
But when I do that, I do fillout the little card with the
information on it, so that'shelpful as well.
Hopefully we can get some moreclothing optional places listed.
Maybe they'll have to tag themwith a certain color so people
don't accidentally reserve atone and not knowing it's
clothing optional, because mostof them don't say that in the
name of the resort, like SunnyRest Resort just says Sunny Rest
(47:45):
Resort.
We've had a few people show upnot realizing it was clothing
optional, because they needed aplace to stay up for the night.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Okay.
So warning to people whenyou're booking a campground and
you don't want it to be clothingoptional, you really need to
just read, because I wouldimagine sunny rest website do
your homework.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Sunny rest website oh yeah, as soon as you go on the
website, it says clothingoptional, but the name of the
resort does not say that I didnot know.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I had to warn my listeners about that.
Thank you, that's a great tipin louisiana it's called indian
hills nudist park.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, okay, so that's a great tip.
In Louisiana, it's calledIndian Hills Nudist Park.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
That's a little more obvious.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
They don't all call themselves that Some place like
Cypress Cove is a reallybeautiful place in Kissimmee,
about 20 minutes from Disney.
It's a beautiful resort,beautiful with its own lake and
free paddle boats and all kindsof fun stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Whispering Pines yeah .
Speaker 3 (48:44):
There's actually a Whispering Pines that's clothing
optional, and then there'sanother one that's not clothing
optional.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
So you have to be careful which one you're booking
at.
They're kind of close to eachother and they're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
They're in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, whispering Pines is in North Carolina,
north Carolina, yeah, northCarolina.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah, which is about 40 minutes north of Myrtle Beach
.
That's another beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
So people can go to your website and it's Naked
Nomads.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
TheNakedNomadscom.
Thenakednomadscom.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Great, so people could go there.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
Check out my skydiving onYouTube.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
Yeah, the naked skydiving.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
That's a fun event.
That's another event we havecoming up.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Okay, naked skydiving .
Where is that Naked skydiving?
Speaker 2 (49:28):
That will be at Sunnyrest.
This will be our third yeardoing it.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Wait.
So how do you get that onYouTube?
Speaker 3 (49:43):
A lot of editing, a lot of editing, a lot of editing
.
Okay, and honestly, the strapscover a lot of the area.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yes, we'll leave it to people's imaginations.
If you need to accelerate yourbucket list.
Speaker 3 (49:52):
You can check off two things with naked skydiving.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yes, yes, there you go.
I think I'm going to pass onthat one, but it might be
interesting to come check out.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Oh, we get just as many people watching as we do
jumping.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
We get probably more people watching than jumping.
I'll bet we do a long weekend.
We have about 50 jumpers everyyear and then we probably have a
couple hundred that come andwatch, or even watch from their
homes in the surrounding areas.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
You can't really see anything when you're a tiny
little dot in the sky.
But right, right not july 9thand 14th this year.
So yeah, if you're interested,sign up, check it, check it out
it's.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
It's making its way around facebook, so okay, I'm
not skydiving safe to say I amnot doing that, we will talk.
This podcast is definitely livein the moment, minimal editing
and there it is for everybody tohear.
Okay, so I don't even knowwhere we were.
(50:52):
We covered a lot, we coveredsafety.
They have security.
The community as a whole reallycares about the people yeah we
talked about.
You know that, that it is alittle nerve-wracking the first
time you go, do you take yourclothes off, do you not?
Speaker 3 (51:10):
and the answer is do what feels right for you,
because what you're mostcomfortable with there's no rule
, always remember to bring atowel yes, oh, number one rule
always bring a towel.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
So when you go to somebody's house or you're
sitting down in the chair, youhave something to sit on.
Okay, good, rule no bare bottomon a chair.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
Okay, that is good to know.
Anything else, any other bigtips to?
Speaker 3 (51:32):
share with people.
Well, along with that, nudistsare probably the cleanest people
you'll ever meet in your life.
Okay, that is really good toknow.
I mean, people think about that.
Oh, I don't mind Somebody'sdirty, but sitting on my chair?
Well, first of all, they're.
They're bringing a towelbecause there is not one nudist
out there that will let you sitin any chair without a towel.
(51:53):
Okay, and you know.
Second of all, people, I meanyou're already naked.
You just hop in the shower acouple times a day, right,
especially if it's hot.
It's, I mean, above all, really, the community is no matter
where you go, where in thecountry, because that was part
of our curiosity when we we wereat Sunny Rest for almost 10
years.
When we ventured out to otherplaces, we thought there's got
(52:16):
to be other places like this,and I will say that Sunnyrest is
still our favorite.
Indian Hills is probably aclose second.
The sense of community, thefeeling of non-judgment, the
connection with nature, which wedidn't really get into, and
it's more me thing than a himthing.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah, she's a nature.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
I've always been a barefooter, so I really like
that connectivity with nature.
I actually have my workstationset up outside under a canopy
and I work outside every day.
So when it's when the weather'sgood, which, since we travel,
we basically chase 75, we chasegood weather.
Yeah Well, I like to be morethan 70, but whatever good
(52:59):
weather, I like to be more than70, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yes, I do as well.
The sense of community is Sunny.
Rest is very big on community.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
All of them really are.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Sunny Rest.
We've got a lot of ladies thathave gone through breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
In June we do a big motorcycle ride.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
They put their big motorcycle ride for the ladies.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Are they naked on the road?
Speaker 2 (53:24):
No, we do sometimes put clothes on, Okay okay.
We're normal people.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I didn't know if it was like in the campgrounds.
No, no.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
It's a big poker run yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
There's one for the blue.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
The back to blue.
The back to blue.
So Kevin puts that together.
I believe in August, june isthe Save the Tatas.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
And there's a few hundred bikers.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
And we do all kinds of like at Sunnyrest.
Anyway, we do all kinds offundraisers for the community.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
There's even a couple there that does it across the
country.
Okay, would fundraisers for thecommunity.
Yeah, um, there's even a couplethere that that does it across
the country.
Okay, would that be on yourwebsite.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Those events, uh, those would be on sunny.
Those would be on the restwebsite.
The skydiving will be onskydiving on ours, that's our
event.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
That's, yeah, it's our event that um sunny rest and
pegasus skydiving uh.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Sponsor so, okay, wow sounds this?
This is information that Idon't think I know I wasn't
expecting.
I would imagine my listenersweren't quite expecting all of
this and yeah, you know, forboth of us, like I'm just, I
want my listeners to askquestions, whether it's you guys
on your social media, thennaked nomads, or on my social
(54:38):
media, the Naked Nomads, or onmy social media, rv Life Podcast
on Instagram and Facebook.
We are not done, but I justwant to make sure that, if this
led to additional questions,that people have a place to
reach out and ask thosequestions.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
We really are just normal people, yeah, and if you
go on our website, we have acontact us page, of course, and
that goes to a big clearinghousewhere all of our requests go in
.
And then we also have FacebookMessenger, and Instagram
Messenger are popular placeswhere people reach out to us.
We do have that disclaimerimmediate automated response,
(55:16):
but we will get back to you,yeah, so anything anybody wants
to know any questions that theyhave, they can use either of
those, any of those formats.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
That and and again, we encourage people to reach out
, because this is something thatyou know people are could be
looking for, because they arefeeling judged or they're
feeling bad about themselves,and so that's certainly a part
of this conversation that Idon't think a lot of people were
expecting, but I could seewhere it would be very
(55:45):
beneficial to so many people.
And you want to say young girlsthat have these images about
their body, but it's not.
It's men and women and it'sgrown people that have these
feelings about themselves.
Speaker 3 (56:03):
A lot of women going through divorces come out
because they just want to feelbetter about themselves and it's
a place to go.
If you can handle it and ifyou're into it, you'll know
right away if you need a supportsystem, because people are
going to support you thereregardless of you know what's
(56:25):
bothering you.
But, yeah, just a verysupportive environment.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
So is it now single woman?
Speaker 3 (56:33):
It is a place that, as a single woman, I could go to
, oh absolutely, you're safer ina nudist resort than you are at
any public, than thesupermarket.
Great, if somebody seessomebody coming on to you,
they're going to go up and sayhey, excuse me, patty, how are
you?
Are you okay?
You know, can I help you outwith anything?
(56:54):
You know?
Whatever, just to get the vibe.
And you can either use that asyour, you know know, yeah, let's
uh get me away from this guykind of thing, right?
And if it's, and if it's evenmore than that, then you know
the guy will get spoken to andor removed from the premises,
depending on the extent of thenature of the incident.
Speaker 2 (57:12):
But, um, and that's you tell me you're fine and go
away yeah, and I just go getanother drink and it doesn't
even have to be a sexual advance.
Speaker 3 (57:19):
It can really just be somebody's following you around
and asking you a lot ofquestions.
They want they.
Every nudist place.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
Um wants everyone to feel comfortable and safe, and
that's great to know, because Iknow I've walked into bars, even
with my wedding ring on, or aclub, or you know, and had more
of an issue than it sounds likeI would have there.
Oh, absolutely, we could talkon and on forever.
I'm sure there'll be otherquestions and if you guys get
(57:47):
questions, share them with me soI could post on my social media
.
And again, we are not done yet.
You guys cannot go anywherejust yet.
I do want to.
It's now time for the questionof the week and this is for you
guys.
I don't prepare you ahead oftime, so I'm going to ask the
question.
Give you a minute to thinkabout it.
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Okay, so you guys bucket listskydiving naked.
It sounds like that's.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
We're kind of living in our bucket list?
Speaker 1 (59:23):
Yeah, it sounds like it.
So is skydiving naked somethingnew, have you?
Speaker 3 (59:28):
ever done.
I wouldn't mind going to othercountries.
We get a lot of followers,especially on Instagram places
in Ireland, australia.
Germany is huge.
Germany has a lot of newdisplaces.
Most european countries don'thave any hang-ups about clothing
.
They're not as hung up as yeah,there's tons of places on the uh
(59:48):
, you know, on the other side ofthe world.
So if there's anything that wehaven't experienced, that would
probably be it right now.
Logistically, uh, since we livein a motor home, we'd have to
park it and pay to have itparked somewhere while we go
somewhere else, whichtechnically isn't any different
than paying your mortgage andtaking a vacation.
Right, but yeah, that'sprobably the only thing I can
(01:00:10):
think of Ireland for me.
Yeah, Ireland Big one.
Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Skydiving was a big bucket list for me and I did
skydiving before with clothes on, but to do it naked was awesome
.
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Oh yeah, that was amazing.
Oh wow, the only other thingthat I could think of is and I
just lost it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Okay, well, if you think of it.
So stay with me because I'mgoing to talk about the
campground of the week and thiscampground.
You do need to wear clothes forthis campground.
It is brought to you by RV Life.
We talked about the RV Lifesuite of products that you guys
use.
We'll have to talk to RV Lifeabout adding naked campgrounds
(01:00:56):
to their filter.
I don't know if that's possible.
The owner listens to theepisode, so we'll see what he
has to say about that.
But this week's featuredcampground is St George,
hurricane KOA, in Hurricane,utah.
It is a Thousand Trails Park,but you do not need to be a
member to stay.
St George, hurricane KOA.
(01:01:18):
The landscape is absolutelyincredible.
It reveals millions of years ofgeologic history and
breathtaking views.
I started looking at thesepictures of what's around this
campground and absolutelybreathtaking is the only word I
could think of.
(01:01:39):
They have 123 sites, they do afull hookups and if you don't
have an RV, like me, I could gorent a cabin while I'm there.
They have a solid 7.3 rating onthe RV Life Campgrounds website
, with 190 reviews, so if youwant to hear what the RVers that
have stayed there actuallythinking what their thoughts are
(01:02:02):
, then you could check out thereviews.
And what's really nice is it'seasy to book this campground
because you go tocampgroundsrvlifecom type in St
George, slash, hurricane, koa,and then you could see all of
the photos.
They have a full list of theamenities about the property.
(01:02:22):
Everything you need to know isright there and what's even
nicer is you could hit the booknow button, not go anywhere else
, just book your stay right fromthe RV Life Campgrounds site.
As I said, rv Life Campgroundsis part of the RV Life Pro Suite
of products and it's the mostcomprehensive source of RV parks
(01:02:44):
, campgrounds, resorts, city,state, national parks and Corps
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It doesn't have nudist parksyet, but maybe you could suggest
that it's customer support.
We're working on it there you go, and you could go there by
visiting campgroundsrvlifecom Ifyou're not already a member.
There is a 25% discount link inthe show notes.
(01:03:08):
Guys, thank you so much forbeing on the show for all of the
information.
I know that you've reallycleared up a lot of the mystery
in the idea of clothing optionalcampgrounds.
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Thanks for having us, thanks for letting us educate
people on the life of nudity.
Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Yes, and again, any questions.
I want the listeners to reachout to you guys, whether it's
private message on your socialmedia.
Message me and let's sharethose questions and answers.
We'll leave names out of it andI will have them posted on my
social media just to get anyfurther questions answered for
(01:03:48):
people.
Put it out there to everyoneand I want to thank my listeners
and remind you life's a journey.
Live each day to the fullest,without regrets.
I'm Patti Hunt and you havebeen listening to the RV Life
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