We wake up warm and rested in Roswell, New Mexico in a rather used looking motel room.
Out front on the street, a western motif has taken on a new message.
Everywhere, there are more green critters and crashed space ships.
A Paul Bunyan sized Alien decorates an ice-cream shop. It is wearing a covid mask.
We are feeling refreshed from our dip in the natural bathtub. We are comfortably barefoot, head to toe, road ready. We leave Dog Canyon, passing through Alamogordo, New Mexico, continuing our journey.
I’ve used the word “carnude”, or “carnuding” several times lately. Just to do some housekeeping, it is a contraction of “car” and “nude” that several of us came up with several years ago. It was a takeoff of the contraction “canuding” meaning canoeing nude. It simply means traveling by car without clothing. Here is a complete Carnuding Handbook, which explains the how to’s that we employ to safely carnude:
Carnuding Handbook: On Being Realistic and Practical
We slow through the quiet town of Tularosa. I have been through here numerous times over my lifetime, but never have taken true notice. I spot a large neighborhood of dressed up older homes. They are what I’d call New Mexico styles. They have much in common with the popular Santa Fe style, but are less restricted to the boxy pueblo look.
The Free Range Naturist 