Judy and her Letters and Poems
Part 2
Well it looks like I decided to back to Iowa to see Judy over the weekend. She wanted to go to summer school and take some courses. It’s a five hour drive to get to Upper Iowa and all I had on my mind was just to see her. That was it.
Here is the next letter Judy sent me.
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Judy’s Letters and Poems
Part 1
I was looking around my apartment for some documents when I came across some of my X wife’s poems and letters that I had saved. I was so surprised that I had found them. I have been living in this one bedroom apartment for the past 37 years all by myself and this was the first time I had found them since I stored them away. My x-wife Judy and I were married for 15 years and had two great children. We remained friends all these years even though we weren’t married anymore. Neither one of us ever got remarried. Judy went downhill and my kids had to put her in a nursing home. This May at the age of 77 Judy died.
So I sat down and started reading her poems and letters she had written to me before and after we were married. All of the great memories we had together came flooding into my head and the tears started flowing.
When did we meet? Well after I got out of the Navy I wanted to go college. I ended up going to Upper Iowa College in Fayette Iowa back in 1968. One day I was sitting at a bar having a beer when my cousin came in with two girls on either side of him. “Holy Cow,” I said to myself. I was impressed. I wondered where he found those two girls. My cousin Jim had been going to Upper Iowa for a couple of years so he knew a lot of people. We went and got a booth and this one girl sat right next to me. Back in those days the girls wore miniskirts and Judy wore them just fine. All of a sudden I was interested in her and we started going together. She was fun to be with and I really started to like her at lot.
My cousin Jim found his girlfriend. Her name was Sandy. She was the other girl that was with Jim when they walked in the bar.
Jim and Sandy on the left and Judy and Me, Bill on the right.
At the end of the year my grades were not good enough to come back. This is where Judy starts sending me letters where I lived with my Grandmother back in Chicago. I’ll let you read them from here.
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Well I am going to be 77 on August 5th 2022. So I want to go to The Nudist Camp on August 6th to celebrate my Birthday. This will be the second trip to a Nudist Camp this year. I love running around Naked outside and this should be a lot of fun. I have never been to this Nudist Camp before but they are going to have a Naked mile walk whatever that is. After that they are going to have a Body Painting Party. That should be Cool. I was thinking about having them paint a pair of dice on my chest but if not I‘ll let them paint whatever they want on me. I wanted to have someone take a picture of me after they paint me but they don’t allow picture taking. The only two things I am not going to like are that I have to wake up at 6am in the morning for the 2 hour drive up there. The other thing I don’t like is that I’ll be going all by myself again. I wish I had somebody that would come with me. It would be a lot more fun that way. I know the ticket cost $54.67 to get in so I put it on my credit card but as luck would have it I went to the casino on July 31st and made +$55 in about 15 minutes. The next day I went straight to the bank and paid off $55 on my credit card. The gas to get up there is free too. I went back to the casino on August 4th and made $44. Then I got out of there and went straight to the gas station and filled my up tank with gas. That was AWESOME now I am ready to celebrate my 77th Birthday
TRIP REPORT TO FOLLOW…
Celebrating my 77th birthday in Wisconsin’s Naked Mile and Body Painting Party
Like I said before waking up at 6 am is not my thing. I took a bath and that woke me up. It was only an hour and a half drive up to Cambridge Wisconsin to Valley View Nudist camp, tollways all the way there. I have never been to this nudist camp before and I found it to be the smallest one I have been too but they have the most events of all. There were a lot of people there for the naked mile event. I thought it was going to be a walk through the woods but it turned out to be a walk around the nudist camp a couple of times. There were a lot of vendors set up by the pool selling the wears and talent. Then about 10:30 we all got in groups of 4 to 6 people. For this Naked Mile Walk the vendors set up tables all around the nudist camp. They gave you a list of the vendor’s tables starting at #1 and going up to #19. Each group would go to one of the tables and perform whatever they asked you to do. There were several tables where you had to drink a shot and the vendor would initial your paper saying that you completed that task and then you went to the next table on your list. I don’t drink so they just initialed my paper and off we went to the next table that was on the list. Some of the other tables had you balance pencils on the back of your wrist and toss them up and catch them with your hand. I wish I had the list but I can remember a couple of tables gave you a temporary tattoo. Nothing you had to do was hard it was just fun walking around in the nude with a bunch of other naked people having fun.
One of the things that I don’t like is that I am always going to the nudist camp by myself. All the other girls I used to know are dead. I guess that’s what happens when you start to outlive everybody. But this Naked Mile Walk was fun because they put us in groups of 4 to 6 people. I ended up in a group with 4 other younger people. They were great and I had someone to be with and talk too.
I don’t know how long it took us to complete the walk around all 19 tables but it must have been a couple of hours. I checked the weather before I left home and it said it was going to get up to 96 degrees. It started getting really hot and the sun was beating on me. I wish it had been about 80 but it wasn’t.
When we got though, they gave you a medal for completing everything. I think they were going to give out a prize later on in the day.
Well now that that was over with I got out a sandwich and a pop that I brought with me. I thought they were going to have food or someone that sells food but I didn’t see anything. It was a good thing I brought food with me or I would have passed out especially in this heat. The next thing I did was to check out the swimming pool. You are supposed to take a shower before entering the pool so I did. It felt so good because I turned it to cold. It was the coolest thing I found all day. I went into the pool but the water was warm and it tasted funny to me. I guess it must have been the chemicals that they put in the pool to kill the germs, I don’t know. So I got out of there and went back and took another cold shower. I felt better after that. I took a walk around all the vendors that were set up at the pool. I was especially looking for an artist that could body paint my chest. They had several artists. I walked by someone who was selling embroidered towels with the Nudist Camp Logo on it that I liked but I didn’t want to spend that much. I kept looking around at all the artists and found one that was good so I asked him if he could paint a pair of Dice on my chest. “Sure,” he said. “How much do you charge,” I asked him. “$20.” “Alright,” I replied and I sat down and he started. I told him that I wanted 6 on one die and 1 on the other die totaling the number 7. That started off a conversation as he was painting.
After he was finished he took a picture of what he done and showed it to me. “That’s Cool,” I said. I wanted to take a picture of myself on my own cell phone but I told him they don’t allow picture taking in the Nudist camp. “If I get my cell phone out of my car can I bring it back here and have you take a picture of me?” “Sure as long as we don’t get any other nudist in the picture,” he replied. When I got back he was painting this young girl so I waited around until he was finished. After he took my picture I went to look at what else I could find. I saw this T-shirt that says, “Under This Shirt I am Still a Nudist.” It wasn’t that much so I bought myself another 77th Birthday present.
It was just too hot for me by this time so I decided to call it a day around 3:30 in the afternoon. I had a ball running around naked all day and I didn’t want to put my clothes back on. You just get used to being naked, you know. It feels great.
Maybe I might try going back to Lake in the Woods Nudist club in Valparaiso, Indiana. I liked it there. I will see how it goes.
