Shooting For 30 Days Naked

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 8, 2020

  [quote]Good luck with your attempt. I suspect you will either fail or be so comfortable with it that it ends up extended to 40 or 50 days. The best I have managed is 13 and 14 days respectively on holiday at Euronat resort in France - a location with it's own shops and restaurants so you never need to dress until you leave the site (and not always then).[/quote]I'm sure I can go on forever! However, my trailer has limits on the amount of water in the tank (100 gallons), and my gray tank and black tank have limits also. But if it's just me here, I'm sure my tanks can take me out to 30 days.

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 9, 2020

  Day 4- Now four straight days without wearing anything. Today was warmer again this time a high of 74F. Did some more hiking around, this time I followed the BLM road for another 2 miles, and then 2 miles back. Four miles total. Felt good get out again in the sun. By the time I got back to my trailer, I was breaking a sweat. Starting to feel normal being naked. This was something I was actually looking forward to. When I did 7-straight days naked (18 months ago), I recalled that's how it started to feel. It's like my skin starts to accommodate itself to being completely exposed to the outside air. I still feel naked, that is, I know I'm naked from an intellectual standpoint. But now, I'm just starting to notice myself feeling, "naturally nude". Otherwise, I'm still spending a lot of time inside my trailer doing my webdev work. Still no one else around, at least not within any seeing distance. I heard a bird chirping today. I was sitting inside the trailer with the door and windows open, and it caught my attention. I notice that flowers are blooming everywhere now. Bees are now out in larger numbers, as are other flying insects. So, I guess it stands to reason the birds are out catching insects. Photo attached below was taken earlier this evening. It's a full moon out tonight.

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  noodengr2

  Feb 9, 2020

  [My loose baggy shorts are just the cheap cotton/polyester gray shorts I find at the discount clothing stores for, usually $5. Get em oversize and then cut the legs off shorter to make em short shorts, with just enough inseam to tie the middle together. They end up more like a short kilt with under tie to keep em from flying up too easily. Just enough to make the non naturist feel comfortable in my presence.[/quote] Here is an idea for you to try. I do a similar to a pair of shorts except take a snip or three further. I cut away everything that connects between the legs and slit both sides. I end up with an elastic strap with flaps of fabric front and back. I wear them for front yard work where I can't be totally bare. To anyone driving by they look like shorts but provide the most freedom of movement for my tackle. I have even had one on one standing conversation with a police officer and others who made no comments. Funny thing is I feel overdressed in what I call " barely there " shorts but most would consider themselves nude.

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  Tom D

  Feb 9, 2020

  [quote]Good luck with your attempt. I suspect you will either fail or be so comfortable with it that it ends up extended to 40 or 50 days.The best I have managed is 13 and 14 days respectively on holiday at Euronat resort in France - a location with it's own shops and restaurants so you never need to dress until you leave the site (and not always then). I'm sure I can go on forever! However, my trailer has limits on the amount of water in the tank (100 gallons), and my gray tank and black tank have limits also. But if it's just me here, I'm sure my tanks can take me out to 30 days.[/quote] How can you get by o n 3 gallons of water a day? Do you recycle the gray water for flushing?

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  Tom D

  Feb 9, 2020

  [quote][My loose baggy shorts are just the cheap cotton/polyester gray shorts I find at the discount clothing stores for, usually $5. Get em oversize and then cut the legs off shorter to make em short shorts, with just enough inseam to tie the middle together. They end up more like a short kilt with under tie to keep em from flying up too easily. Just enough to make the non naturist feel comfortable in my presence. Here is an idea for you to try. I do a similar to a pair of shorts except take a snip or three further. I cut away everything that connects between the legs and slit both sides. I end up with an elastic strap with flaps of fabric front and back. I wear them for front yard work where I can't be totally bare. To anyone driving by they look like shorts but provide the most freedom of movement for my tackle. I have even had one on one standing conversation with a police officer and others who made no comments. Funny thing is I feel overdressed in what I call " barely there " shorts but most would consider themselves nude.[/quote] Sounds good if you are standing straight, but I would think that if you bend forward, crouch down or sit, everything would be visible. Have you had that problem?

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  UrsaMajor

  Feb 9, 2020

  I hope you are able to reach your goal. This is a difficult time of year to do it. I'm just outside of Tucson right now so I suspect I'm experiencing the same weather as you. Pretty nice again today but it looks like we're in for a cool down this week. The forecast for my neighborhood is for highs in the mid-fifty's and lows in the mid-thirty's. That would be pretty challenging for me to stay nude and I've lived in Alaska over 40 years. You are probably aware of this but be careful with the portable propane heaters. Make sure your RV is ventilated when they are burning. I don't mean to preach but CO poisoning is fairly common in Alaska so I'm always a bit paranoid about it. Keep us posted on your progress and enjoy the full Moon. (no pun intended)

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 10, 2020

  Day 5- Weather was cooler today, reaching only a high of 67. It was breezy too, and mostly cloudy. Still, I went out for another walk, but only about 2 miles this time, and only with my sandals, but otherwise still naked. Yet despite what little sun I got out here in the AZ desert, and despite the air being cooler and breezy, I didn't feel too cold. I started to wonder if my body was starting to compensate more effectively, allowing the skin the cool but keeping my core warm. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain here. And so, considering my solar panels won't be able to generate much of any electricity, I decided to change the oil and oil filter in my generator. I'll probably need to run it several hours tomorrow just to keep my battery bank charged. This was the first time I ever changed the oil on my generator in the nude. Still no sign of anyone else around here. Not that I don't want anyone, or do. It's just desolate out here. I've wondered what I would do if I happened to be outside and some others saw me. Would I quickly cover up? Would i just keep going about my business? My head says that I will just keep going about my business, and not really care. And if they see me, and laugh, then I'll just happily wave Hello to them. But I don't really know what my gut reaction will be until we get to that situation. I think it's different when you're at a place where people expect to see naked people. I've been to some nude beaches, and I don't feel any bit alarmed when clothed persons saw me naked. But out here, where nudity is not expected? The photo attached below is of me posing with a very tall Saguaro cactus.

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  UrsaMajor

  Feb 10, 2020

  [quote]The maximum time I've been continuously naked is 12 weeks. Anyone more than that?[/quote] Unless you were shipwrecked on some deserted island I bet that took some planning. I can't imagine how weird it must have felt putting on clothes afterwards. Just a week at a nudist resort makes me feel uncomfortable in clothes.

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  UrsaMajor

  Feb 10, 2020

  [quote]The photo attached below is of me posing with a very tall Saguaro cactus.[/quote] I like the photo but I afraid if I posed next to that Saguaro I'd get feelings of inadequacy.

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 10, 2020

  [quote]I like the photo but I afraid if I posed next to that Saguaro I'd get feelings of inadequacy.[/quote]It was a very proud Saguaro to say the least.

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 11, 2020

  [strong]Day 6[/strong] - So it rained today. And the wind blew pretty good. My trailer was rocking quite a bit for awhile. I didn't really go outside, except to get a good look at the coming storm. Otherwise, it was an inside day.
  
  Temperature dropped quite a bit. The high temp seemed to be about 60F. I had turned on my portable radiant heater around 5:00pm. By then, outside temps had dropped to about 53F.
  
  My portable radiant heater is a Wave Heater. It's the "Wave 6". It's branded as a, "Catalytic Safety Heater". It doesn't heat the air, it only heats objects in front of it. It's only good when it's pointed at you. The advantage of it is that it is extremely efficient. That is, it just sips propane, yet produces a lot of heat, so long as you're in front of it. I have it connected to a 12 foot hose that leads to a 20# tank sitting outside. I drilled a small hole in the wheel well of the trailer to run the hose through. A standard 20# tank can last about 3-4 weeks on the Wave 6, at least in the way I use it, which is about 4-6 hours each night.
  
  I have it sitting on the floor of my trailer about 3 feet away from my desk. I can continue to work on my website stuff (in the nude) even as temperature drops into the 40s inside the trailer.
  
  I also have the Mr. Heater "Buddy", another portable propane heater, but it works a lot differently. It actually heats the air. But I don't have the propane tank connector for it. I have to instead use the 1# canisters, which only seem to last about 4 hours when the heater is running at low.
  
  The trailer also has a 20,000 BTU furnace, which works pretty well at heating the trailer up. However, it's ducted throughout the trailer, which leads to wasted heat. That is, if I'm in the living area, it's still going to heat up the bedroom and bathroom, even if I'm not in those areas. I only use the furnace when both my wife and I are the in the trailer.
  
  My solar panels weren't able to charge the batteries 100% today, though it got close. I have two 360 watt panels on the roof. They were able to generate 1.09Kwh of power, but my solar charge controller didn't go into Float at all. I'll cover more about my solar set up later on.
  
  Photo attached below is when it was raining hardest this afternoon...

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  Patrick

  Feb 11, 2020

  What a wonderful goal! I wish you the best in getting there. It has been a bit cool, by non-clothing standards, here in AZ so stay warm. The afternoons in the sunshine have been very nice though. Good luck and enjoy your nude month!

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 12, 2020

  [strong]Day 7[/strong] - Well, today ties my previous stretch of days remaining fully nude, 7 days. It was another cold day today, partly sunny, but quite cold outside. High temps here where I am seemed to reach about 58 degrees F. As I write this at 9:20 PM (Arizona time), the thermometer I have outside reads 50F.
  
  I did go outside today, for a couple of times, but briefly. The first time, around 12:00 afternoon, was just to see how cold/warm it was, and it wasn't all that warm. I went outside again around 4:30 pm, just to see how cold it was, considering it was the highest temperature of the day, and it was still chilly. The rains, however, seemed to erase most of the tire tracks my truck and trailer marked into the top soil. All of my shoe and sandal prints are gone.
  
  One thing the rain pointed out to me is that the ramp door in the back of the trailer needs new rubber seals. It seems some water managed to get inside the trailer by leaking past the seal. I'm going have to wait until after my 30 day nude challenge is up before I order some Walmart's website. By that time, I hope to move further east, and somewhere along the way connect up with my wife.
  
  I mentioned my solar panel set up yesterday. What I have on the roof are two 360 watt panels. That's 720 watts total. These are actually monocrystalline residential panels made by Sunpower. They are riveted to the crossbeams of the trailer roof, and then sealed using self-leveling Dicor. I have them running in parallel and connecting to a Victron MPPT 100/50 solar charge controller. From there, they go into two 6 volt golf cart batteries made by Interstate. It's been a good system for me. The panels deliver far more energy than my batteries can store, even during the winter months. But on the other hand, when my wife is here, she tends to use a lot more electricity than I do.
  
  Weather forecast says it's supposed to get warmer the rest of the week.
  
  Otherwise, not much going on today.

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  Tom D

  Feb 12, 2020

  Good that you have set a new record for longest time nude.
  Do you have an easy way of knowing how much of your water, propane and waste storage you have used?

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 13, 2020

  [quote]Good that you have set a new record for longest time nude. Do you have an easy way of knowing how much of your water, propane and waste storage you have used?[/quote]As for the water, I just look underneath the trailer to see how much water is left in the tank. Right now, there's still lots. I've used maybe 12 to 15 gallons? As for the propane, that's more difficult to tell. I do have gauges on the tanks, but they seem to only be accurate when the tanks are empty. I have four tanks, one is being used as the main tank, and my guess is there's still 50% left. A second tank is hooked to my radiant heater, and I'm guessing that too is about 50% remaining. I still have two more full tanks. The "waste storage" can be tricky to determine. The blank tank is easier to gauge just by listening to the sound of poop dropping down from the toilet. I can still right now that it's only about 10% full, and it's a 45 gallon tank. The gray is about near impossible to determine, but considering I've only used about 12-15 gallons of fresh water, and I probably drank and cooked about 3 of those gallons, then it's probably about 20% full?

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  NakedBadger

  Feb 13, 2020

  This is a great project: Living 30 days naked in a camper on BLM land. Power to you! Ive been naked as long as eight days at a naturist resort, but your goal and the circumstances make your adventure sound like something out of Edward Abbey.! Hope you hang in there!

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 13, 2020

  Day 8- Temps are warming back up again, though still somewhat chilly. At least the winds died down. High temp was 63. I did go out for a walk today, but only about a mile total. I was curious to see what other tire tracks and shoeprints had become erased by the rains. It's interesting to think how such a trivial curiosity had been stirring in my mind. But, I think when your day to day life becomes this simplified, you tend to think of stuff like that.
  
  I recall seeing a thread on TrueNudists about the age-old discussion on whether or not nudism is a form of sexuality. These past several days that I've been able to go for a walk outdoors, naked, I haven't felt anything sexual. No eroticism, no fantasy, not even the sense of being naughty. On the other hand, when I started this 30-day challenge, I did feel those feelings. So, I think that the exhilaration of taking all your clothes off and stepping outside does release a surge of Dopamine. But after being naked for a full week, that hormonal rush just isn't there.
  
  Instead, I'm at a point where my body and brain has started to accept full-time nudity as just normal. At this point, I don't even think about looking out of the window to see if any other campers are around before stepping outside. I just go outside. In fact, I don't even think about if anyone else is in the general area before taking a one, two, or three mile hike away from my trailer. I just keep on walking like it's natural.
  
  The desert is starting to take on more color. There are these tiny yellow flowers opening up everywhere. See attached photo...

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  Stone Andy

  Feb 13, 2020

  Being naked for 30 days straight would be a wonderful luxury. But shooting beyond a few seconds to 30 days is beyond imaginable. Edging for hours is a better goal.

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  Nude Paul

  Feb 14, 2020

  I'm naked the majority of the time since I live in the country with no close neighbors and work from home. When it's cold, I'll wear a shirt during the day but always sleep naked. Most I've gone is 14 days straight. It was in the summer so being outside was fine. I even walked down the long driveway naked, made sure no cars were coming then checked the mail box. Finally had to put on shorts to go get groceries, but an hour later I back in the nude!

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  Wayne

  Feb 14, 2020

  [quote]Being naked for 30 days straight would be a wonderful luxury. But shooting beyond a few seconds to 30 days is beyond imaginable. Edging for hours is a better goal.[/quote] Lol!

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  Stone Andy

  Feb 14, 2020

  [quote]I'm naked the majority of the time since I live in the country with no close neighbors and work from home. When it's cold, I'll wear a shirt during the day but always sleep naked. Most I've gone is 14 days straight. It was in the summer so being outside was fine. I even walked down the long driveway naked, made sure no cars were coming then checked the mail box. Finally had to put on shorts to go get groceries, but an hour later I back in the nude![/quote] sounds awesome! and you have your twin (your reflection in your avatar) to keep you naked company, too.

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  Tom D

  Feb 14, 2020

  [quote]I'm naked the majority of the time since I live in the country with no close neighbors and work from home. When it's cold, I'll wear a shirt during the day but always sleep naked. Most I've gone is 14 days straight. It was in the summer so being outside was fine. I even walked down the long driveway naked, made sure no cars were coming then checked the mail box. Finally had to put on shorts to go get groceries, but an hour later I back in the nude![/quote] Do you own relatively little clothing since you rarely wear any?

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  SteveOriginal Poster

  Feb 14, 2020

  Day 9- It warmed up a little bit more today. I decided to take a chance, and get into my truck and go for a ride, naked of course. About a mile from where I'm camped, is the paved road. I drove for about 8 miles heading south until it change to a dirt road. From there I continued driving until I found what looked to be a place with lots of Palo Verde trees and what looked like a well-used camping site. I parked there, and went for a walk. Looking at Google Maps on my phone, I estimated I walked for about 6 miles. I was plenty wore out. I'm not quite in the shape I'd like to be. When I got back to my truck, I had a lunch, and then reclined the seat back to rest. I ended up taking a nap. Probably my longest time spent naked and away from my trailer. Somehow, the longer I wander naked away from "home", the more naked I feel. Mind you, I didn't take any "emergency clothes" with me. The idea of having clothes readily available seems to make nudity feel less nude. I don't know. I've often thought about it, along with nudism in general, and I've yet to fully put my finger on what it is about wandering about with no clothing that seems so profound. While driving to and back, there were some cars and trucks that passed by going the opposite direction. No one turned around and followed me to ask why I was naked, so either they didn't care, or didn't notice. Probably the latter. Albeit, it's a rather lonely road. When I got back to my trailer, I noticed another truck and trailer camped about a mile south of me. Attached is a photo of me posing. I don't have a tripod to get my cellphone raised high enough, thus it ended up focusing on the ground.

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  NakedBadger

  Feb 14, 2020

  always around: how often are you barefoot as well as naked?

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