Town, naturally.

The new nudist shrugged, having made up her mind "Heading into town doesn't sound that bad...besides, might as well get used to people seeing me right?" She asked herself as she checked her purse and gathered essentials. Her phone, wallet, a bottle of water, as well as a pack of wet wipes just in case. Meril considered grabbing her van keys, but took one look at the vehicle and decided against it, she'd spent way too long in the thing and wanted some fresh air, so walk she would.

Making sure she grabbed the house key she closed the front door, hearing it lock behind her, locking away her clothes. In any normal situation having your clothes be on the other side of a locked door would be terrifying, but to Meril it was freeing, exciting. She grinned to herself and began walking down the driveway, able to look over her large front yard now that the sun was coming up properly. And come up it certainly was, sunlight was kissing her bare skin, caressing her nude form, it felt like having your first hug in weeks, or feeling a long lost lover.

The walk down her new driveway probably took her as long as it did to walk down to the convenience store where she lived before. But with the sun on her and the wind at her back, she felt more refreshed than she ever had before. Meril almost started to skip but knew she'd have to reserve her energy, it wouldn't be a short walk.

This whole time Meril had been on her property, basically able to do what she damn well pleased. Her walk down the driveway was coming to an end though, the road was growing ever closer. That lifeline was slowly slipping away...but Meril took the leap, stepping from the lighter tone of her driveway, onto the darker, dirtier tone of the main road, she knew that she was serious now. Taking a deep breath, Meril looked up at a sign across the road pointing rightwards, in the direction of town and began hoofing it.

Each step felt like a new experience, Meril was getting further from any kind of safety, she hadn't even brought clothes on the off chance she'd turn into a puddle of embarrassment. But while she got further, while she admitted that nature this time of summer was indeed wonderful. Meril had to admit that walking down a country road like this was kind of boring, and it'd probably still take a while.

To solve her sudden and potentially lasting boredom she decided to multitask. Pulling her phone out she discovered that this area had excellent cellphone coverage, and so, she got to that research she meant to do earlier.

Google: "Public nudity laws Montana" Meril typed onto her phone, to her annoyance she had to scroll past a handful of porn sites who had seemed to be taking advantage over the public nudity laws before finding what she was looking for. Clicking the link she thankfully found either a poorly made site or a deliberately to the point site detailing the laws as written in Layman's Terms.

The introduction details things she already knew about, how the law was implimented, when it was and why, before moving onto the 'meaty details'

Persons may be naked at any public place without interference from staff or members of the public, it is to be noted that private places do not apply to this and may prevent persons from entering naked. The first listing of course was the law in broad strokes, how every state must follow it.

Persons may not be partially undressed for any reason excluding health and safety, for example persons are not allowed to be willingly topless or bottomless, footwear also applies to this ruling. Health and safety examples are as follows, partial covering in colder weather, hiking shoes in harsh terrain, medical reasons such as bandages requiring a covering. This one made Meril tilt her head a little, were they that strict on people being fully nude? It was a good thing that she hadn't brought her shoes.

Persons who are visibly sexually aroused must find a way to either privately deal with it promptly or to allow their body to calm down as it can be seen as an offence. Meril hadn't considered that, but it made a lot of sense, with the sexual organs on full display there'd be no way to be low key about an erection. But she was happy that the law dictated that as long as they excused themselves it wasn't seen as a big problem.

Meril was caught off guard when she heard a car pass her by. She'd been engrossed in reading that she had barely been paying attention to the road, no doubt that car got a good look at her body. Feelings began to churn within her as she tried to decide whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, that she'd just been seen, that her nude form was no longer private. Additionally she wasn't sure in which way to take it, was it sexy and naughty? Or is it normal? She wasn't quite sure if she was doing this to be an exhibitionist or if she simply wanted to be free with how she lived her life.

Shifting her weight from side to side Meril realised that she was just standing there, phone in one hand purse in the other, stuck in thought. These were new thoughts and feelings and wouldn't develop overnight, so she got back to walking...and back to her research.

Persons may not engage in sexual activity for the intents of causing pleasure and/or a disturbance on public property between the hours of 7am-11am, 1pm-5pm, 7pm-11pm and 1am-5am. This one was the one that made Meril frown slightly as she unwound the lingo a bit, clearly this one was written in a way to dissuade people from reading into it. Sexual activity in her mind wasn't limited to just fucking, so if you were trying to fuck or masturbate it's illegal if it's for pleasure or causes a disturbance. Meril stroked her chin as she looked at the times, they imply that there are four windows about two hours long where that doesn't apply though. The wording is curious as to the intents as well, what if you don't intend to cause pleasure or a disturbance? Is it perfectly legal at all hours to publicly put a baby in a person?

Meril had obviously gone through the laws that were there for less than sexual reasons and was stepping into ones that had come across because someone had either pushed their luck or because of perverted imagination. She let out a sigh as both were equally as disappointing and wondered how many people went nude in this town? Meril had no real idea how big the place was, she had a few guesses at it being small but not small enough to be some one street town. Big enough for one of the advertised benefits of the home she just bought to be a train station. It might be the case that like most towns and cities in this modern age of legal nudity, there aren't many catches, with laws like this going under the radar for months. As for the laws, Meril decided she might as well read on, there might be an amusing gem hidden in this.

Persons may not be naked while wearing 'bondage gear' as an accessory as it's seen as distruptive. That one actually made Meril chuckle and she had a hard time reading on as she tried to think up exactly how distruptive this bondage gear was that it had it's own law written about it.

That's when Meril heard it, an engine. She was ready this time, mostly because this wasn't a quiet car like the last time, this time there was a bit of a roar behind it. But was she ready to be seen naked again? By a stranger, someone she's never met before, the thought frightened her and excited her at the same time. Forcing her arms to her sides she kept walking as the sound grew closer and closer, coming up behind her.

The sound came around at full volume now, before she saw a dusty red pickup truck pull up on her left side. The driver, a middleaged maybe woman, pretty but in an almost rugged beauty kind of way, ginger hair wrapped up in a tight ponytail was leaning over "You okay hun?" She asked, Meril instinctively stopping and turning towards the stranger, years of manners and politeness preventing her from just walking along "You lost or...hurt miss?" The stranger asked again.

Meril quickly came to her senses and stammered "Oh I uh, n-no I'm fine, I'm just walking into town" She added with a small smile. The nudist's heart was racing, she almost feared it'd burst from her chest with how hard it was beating.

"But your clothes ma'am? I uh...don't think I saw any shoes on you, you sure you're okay?" The redhead asked, genuine concern in her tone as she gave Meril a quick look over. It was a simple thing, everyone sized everyone up and this stranger was just checking to see if she had clothes with her, but that look made Meril tremble a little.

"What? No no I'm fine it's just..." Now comes the kicker, this person was a local, the thing with locals and small towns like this is word travels. So whatever she called herself, Meril knew at some point everyone would know, so she couldn't hesitate, even though she was "...I'm just a uh...n-nudist" The nude girl smiled again, like labelling herself had lifted a weight from her shoulders, she was a nudist, through and through.

The stranger just frowned and nodded "Well then, didn't know that was leg-oh yeah there was uh, I remember reading about that in the news. That was a while ago now huh..." She stroked her chin before just shrugging "Anyway you're heading into town? Want a ride?"

Meril was about to clarify that it wasn't actually that long ago, but decided against it at the offer of a ride "Please, yes. It'll really save my legs" Slipping her phone into her purse Meril climbed into the passenger seat, the rough cushion proving an interesting experience for her bare asscheeks. "Thanks, I figured I'd walk and get a breath of fresh air but it's further than expected"

"Yep, that tracks. I go walking all sorts of places around here but never anywhere like town, way too far for somewhere you need to get to y'know?" The clothed woman explained, keeping her eyes on the road and when they weren't, maintaining eye contact, though Meril wasn't sure if that was out of respect or because she didn't care. "I'm Kara by the way, Kara Fletcher"

"Meril Brown, nice to meet you Kara" The nude woman said with a friendly smile, one she'd honed after spending years teaching kids who never did what they were told. "I'd be interested in hearing where you go for those walks, just so I know the good routes around here. I'm kind of new in town so I don't know where anything is"

Kara chuckled at that "Yeah I figured you were new, don't see many naked people walking around in broad daylight. There's a folktale about a coven of witches that gather late into the night in the woods though" The redhead smirked, leaving Meril unsure if she was messing with her or not.

"Witches?" The nudist asked in disbelief, shifting her seat to get comfortable again. From what she's heard typically witches are either crones in black robes that want to kidnap children, or groups of naked women who sacrifice goats for the love of Satan. Meril wasn't quite sure which would be the preferred outcome here, the latter certainly had bonus points at the moment "As in...witches...?"

Meril's driver and newest only friend in town simply shrugged "I'm pretty sure they're the reefer gang going out to get high, but you never know. You live alone Meril?"

The question took Meril a little off guard, but she figured she'd play along. This woman didn't seem to have any ill intent toward her, unless she'd read this situation wrong and she was being sent to some glue factory "Yeah, I uh...moved here alone, wanted the privacy"

"Heh" Kara breathed in through her teeth, suppressing a smirk "That's a horror movie set up if I've ever heard it, you watch out or those witches'll come out in the dead of night and try and convert you" She held a serious face for a second or two, before letting out a laugh "Yeah...couldn't hold that one in, sorry"

Meril simply grinned and shook her head at Kara's prank that she saw coming from a million miles, she liked her "Yeah I'll make sure my house is horror movie proof, I'm already the 'only girl' so I know I'll live anyways"

"Hah, there's some truth there..." The pair of them shared another little chuckle as town came into view.

As Meril had expected it certainly wasn't small, there was the train station, a few decently sized buildings including a strip mall, the irony of the name not lost on Meril. It was still 'small town' small, so it had that character to it, not bustling but not quiet. As they pulled into busier streets and more and more people became visible, Meril fought her instincts to slouch down, to take cover behind the door. This place was much busier than an empty country road, the only risk being the occasional car passing you by and maybe stopping. But now these were streets with people on them, people that can just stop and say hi at a moment's notice.

"So..." Meril was snapped out of her spiral by Kara, who casually looked over at Meril "Where do you need to go?" She asked, the nude girl unsure how to immediately answer, she was suddenly in a strange place naked full of clothed people and had no idea where she should be. Well for one she needed to explore but she can't just say 'anywhere' can she? Meril did need supplies though, things like food and water, so at some point she'd have to go shopping for those anyway. Apart from that though she wasn't certain, a fleeting idea was to see if they had somewhere to donate clothes, just in case, just so she knew what her options were with her clothing back home.