I am using a photo that was taken a year ago, March 21, 2020. I was in Ecuador which was in lockdown. The prospect of being able to make it home to Canada was bleak as our flights back to Canada had been cancelled by the airlines. No flights into or out of Ecuador were permitted by any airline. Even domestic passenger flights had been cancelled. A week later, the repatriation flights arrived and we were eventually able to return to our home.
I have to admit that the winter we have just spent in our home on the Canadian prairies, the North American version of Siberia, has been much, much better than I would have hoped to have experienced. The one thing I did miss was the ability to be outdoors while nude with temperatures that were all about summer. Yet, I didn’t lack for nudity in the past twelve months here on the Canadian prairies. A new fireplace and enforced social isolation meant that I didn’t need to wear clothing for the majority of each day. And now, that is about to change.
With Covid19 vaccines now available, I get my first jab in less than two weeks, the need for social distancing will ease, and with that, more time with neighbours and family who are not part of my naturist life experiences. They all know, but are quick to tell me that this nudity stuff is not their thing. I will still have opportunities to be clothing free, just not as often. And that is okay. I will still have more opportunities to be nude on the prairies than I did in either Mexico or Ecuador, two countries which were my winter home for the past eight years. It is getting better.
Still, I wonder where and when I will once again find a tropical paradise to call my winter home, a place where nudity will not be too sorely restricted.