Scott

(Hey, just FYI: I will never accept a friend request if I haven't heard from you by message or in the main chat room. I'll never understand why people just send friend requests to random people they've never even communicated with!) I had a very disappointing first year of teaching high school Spanish [[hablo Espa~nol et je parle franc,ais]] about 30 minutes from home, and I found myself wishing almost daily that I could escape to a nude beach or resort - I often stripped off everything but my undershirt for the drive home. My second year of teaching Spanish at a different school was only slightly less disappointing; I'm interested in other language- and communication-geared jobs, including those of a transcriptionist, translator/interpreter (they're not the same!), captionist, etc. I'm loving my current job as a flight attendant! (I've been a FA since late 2016. I was furloughed for 3 months due to COVID but we got recalled and I'm glad to be back in the skies.) My wife does not share my views about the benefits and joys of social nude recreation, even though she's known about my love for and participation in this activity since before we began dating. I'm always up for making new nudist friends! I attended NUYA in 2007 and 2008 and in the fall of 2013 I went to the Young Nudist Leaders Summit at Cypress Cove! Sadly I had to miss the summits since then in California, Michigan, and Texas. I finally made it to my first Florida Young Naturists bash in August of 2017! I went to the 10-year reunion bash in 2018 as well. I've been to several resorts along the East Coast over the past almost 20 years, and I was there "at the beginning" of the Vita Nuda brainstorm that eventually led to FYN.

**True Nudists/Naturists.** And yes, I know, the -ists and -isms aren't that endearing to the rest of society, but if you truly know what social nude recreation is about and you feel like it's important for others to know, too, and that they be accepting of themselves and their fellow human beings, then you're my kind of friend! Too many on this website are most certainly NOT "true nudists." I keep hoping that my wife will come around to loving social nude recreation, and the couples that we are close to aren't in favor of nude get-togethers, so new nudist friends might be able to help, and even if they are far away, it will be good to connect!

Playing European strategy board games (think Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Agricola, Puerto Rico, Dominion, 7 Wonders, Pandemic, Wingspan, Splendor, etc.); watching ice hockey; learning new languages (I speak French and Spanish fairly well, and from 2014-2019 I was certified to teach both).

Pretty eclectic preferences. Classical, jazz, soundtracks, classic rock, classical guitar, rock, hard rock, alternative, Gregorian chant, House, Techno, Trance, Disney!... I like most music genres other than Rap and R and B. Not a huge fan of Country or Pop music, either.

Star Wars saga, James Bond series, many sci-fi flicks, well-acted and plot-strong action flicks, a lot of the recent superhero movies (especially from the MCU), anything Christopher Nolan has directed (Memento, Inception, The Prestige, Interstellar and Tenet are particularly awesome!), many, MANY more. My favorite movie all time is What Dreams May Come, but I have plenty of genre-specific favorites, too. I quote movies randomly and frequently :-) Inconceivable? Help you, I can. Welcome to Earth!

Anyone who has fought for or continues to fight for the normalization of non-sexual, family-friendly, socially- and environmentally-conscious nude recreation, as well as breastfeeding in public and female top freedom. Some people that come to mind: The woman behind the netname and website SunnyDay; Stephane Deschenes from Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park (and The Naturist Living Show podcast); as well as anyone involved in the Free The Nipple movement and the World Naked Bike Rides. Plus the inimitable artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, for this quote, of course: What spirit is so empty and blind that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, the skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?