OK so here's the story

Greetings Steemarians, here’s the thing.

I first took an interest in Steemit in May of 2017 thinking it would be a good place to post photos. The idea being to get some exposure and improve my skills. I posted a photo to a street photography photo challenge, or so I thought. Long story short I hadn’t done my homework and completely botched the post. Frustrated, I walked away from it until about a week ago, at which time I did a little research, posted another photo and it actually landed in the desired place, although not exactly how I envisioned it.

Upon further investigation I now understand that I need to introduce myself, so here it goes.

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My name is Bill. I live on my sailboat in Vancouver, BC. The loneranger handle just popped into my mind when I was opening the account so I went with it. I like to work as much as I can in the winter and spend my summers sailing the BC coast, visiting old friends and making new ones.

I spent many years as a diamond driller, my work taking me from Canada’s Arctic Circle to some distance below the equator in South America. Best of all it afforded me lots of time off to travel and experience different cultures for extended periods of time. Something that’s difficult to accomplish on a two week vacation to an all inclusive. Don’t get me wrong, the all inclusive has it’s place, it’s just that I prefer the challenge of not knowing what’s over the horizon.

I’ve become disenchanted with the growing censorship I see creeping into all aspects of life, especially social media. Facebook, youtube and amazon tracking your every move. I can’t see how any good can come from it.

Steemit looks like an amazing platform, one where you can post what you like and be screened by your peers. I plan to start off posting some of my photos. I may write a line or two. When summer time comes I hope to document my travels around the coast with words and photographs.

I’m jumping in with both feet so please be patient with me if I don’t follow all the proper etiquette. All advise and constructive criticism welcome.

Thanks for checking out my intro and I hope to make some new friends.

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Hello and Welcome to Steemit. I hope you will enjoy Steemit as much as I do. See you around! :-)

I wish you the best! Hope you gonna have fun with our community and see you soon.

Thank you for the comment, I have a feeling I'm really going to enjoy it here.

HEY! Awesome introduction! Welcome to Steemit! I'll be following you. Much love. Oh and @Originalworks

Thanks a lot, I'll check out your site

Welcome aboard, Bill :)

Thanks a lot

Hello, welcome to Steemit, I wish you luck.

Thank you, good luck to you as well

Sounds like you lead an interesting life lone-ranger! I can sympathise with the Steemit mishaps - it's a tricky one to get a hang of at first.

But I've found the community to be extraordinarily supportive and friendly, especially so for a social media platform.

Hope you have a cracking time with Steemit, I'll keep an eye out for your stuff along the way :)

Welcome to Steemit buddy.

Thanks a lot for the encouragement, there's a pretty steep learning curve for an old guy like me. I like the challenge.

You have found a real treasure here on Steemit. It is so cool that you have been able to travel around the world. I look forward to reading your posts. Good luck!

Thanks for the acknowledgement, it looks like it will be an enjoyable pastime

thank you for the introduction your life sounds interesting
welcome to the platform hope to see your photos soon steem on

Thanks for the reply, should be some more photos coming soon

Welcome to Steemit BIll! I completely agree with you, Steemit is amazing. I don't even use other social media platforms anymore. Looking forward on seeing your photographs!

Thanks for the comment. I'm looking forward to the experience.

welcome to this community ...hopefully you can reach what you want on this community ...

Thank you. We'll just have to see how things pan out.

Welcome to Steemit! I'm an inland sailor myself with a 27 foot sailboat. I hope you enjoy your time here and be sure to check out DTube and Dsound as well. These are the video and audio platforms that are based on the Steem Blockchain and are great additions to your Steemit world. As well, I hope you will look over some of my content and consider following along! Kindest regards.

Thanks skipper, I did have a look at your content, looks pretty interesting