Get To Know Me A Challenge By Anomadsoul

I was nominated for this challenge by two friends @Bozz and @PrincessMewMew.

I came to Steemit because I was looking for a place to write stuff. You know, not facebook junk, not for somebody else, not WordPress. A place to write where there were people that might look at my stuff and if they liked it, come again. My friend @jongolson brought me and in the first day I decided I’d stay one year and see.

My first post wasn’t a complete catastrophe but it was close. Among other things I couldn’t figure out how to post a photo in markdown. Markdown? Who ever even heard of that? HTML isn’t good enough for these people? What was I thinking of when I committed to a year? I must have lost my mind.

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My second post was a complete catastrophe. I ‘re-purposed’ a post I had previously written and published about a 1972 Norton Combat Commando. The writing was fine, it’s a perfectly good post, but the only comment I got was from Cheetah. At least I learned early about the ‘Original Content’ concept here at Steemit. I still have hundreds of old motorcycle reviews that I threaten to knock the rust off. I truly am crazy for motorcycles.

Inside of a month I had made a post about Sam the Wonder Dog. He’d only come to live at my place 3 weeks earlier. I was obviously fond of him them, and today I have a hard time imagining life without him. I’m still the luckiest man alive. I had found a markdown editor, but I didn’t know how to center my images in the final post. There is a good ending to that story.

I had written some ‘self help’ type articles that are ok, but not my passion. I was trying to sell myself to Steemit. Then I wrote a post about camping off a motorcycle. I what was a relatively blatant copy of my new friend @Velimir I started a series on my motorcycle travels. I stole the concept from Velimir and the title from John Steinbeck. Travels With Connie #1 was the first of a still ongoing series and had some pretty good writing in it. I made 0.11 on it, but I knew it was going on.

As you can plainly tell by the photos, Connie not only gets around she sleeps around. Sometimes at cheap motels but often just where sunset happens to catch her. Once in a while she is involved in a group activity, sometimes she stays with friends but is just as likely to be sleeping all by herself with her main man.

By the time I had written Travels With Connie #3 I’d been hanging around the PAL and Adsactly Discords for a while. I was having fun going back and forth with people at both places. I was truly starting to get to know people. What a concept. This post is especially memorable because it was the Adsactly Post of the Day. I can’t tell you what that did for my confidence. It was a truly big deal to me.

By this time I was very active at Adsactly and at PAL, had been accepted at Quarator. A place that had admissions standards? How did I get in? I was so tickled to be allowed to publish there, imagine my shock when Travels With Connie # 12 made the cover of their daily curation mag. I was out of my mind.

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By now I had started to make some real friends on Steemit. I love to comment and engage people so I was then (and still am) going back and forth with people that I was becoming genuinely fond of. One of them, the previously mentioned Velimir challenged me to write an article featuring motorcycles that Adsactly could use. Do You Need Motorcycles In Your Portfolio? Was the first of what is now 30 articles that I have written for Adsactly. I’d never asked Vel about pay and was simply dumbfounded when the pay notice came for that one. 798 votes? Like everybody else I’d wasted significant time chasing whales when I first started, and those totals just amazed me. I am eternally grateful for that opportunity.

The Steem Engine I still don’t know how I got to play with those incredible authors. You see, I’m not an author, I’m not a writer, I’m a stacker of words. Several people that I admired then and now suggested I apply. There standards were way too high, but I applied anyway. Travels With Connie #43 Dreams Die Hard (maybe my personal favorite) probably helped me get there. It was also my first Currie. I couldn’t believe it. Still can’t.

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I had occasionally told little bits of my personal story across time. Princess Mew Mew and others pestered me to write it down. I’m still grumbling about it, but Travels With Cleo #1 is the first of a jumbled and disjointed history of me.

Ahhhh, Jeeze. I’ve gotten way over my word budget, I just couldn’t help it. Here is the whole part I need to say in one paragraph:

It has been my privilege to get to know and work with some of the finest people I have met online under any circumstances. The people at PAL and Adsactly and Qurator and The Steem Engine and Isle of Write are just beyond normal folks. Way beyond in many cases. They are basically at fault for any success that I have enjoyed here, and I can not thank any of them enough.

I am 67 years old, and the Steemit experience has been one of the coolest experiences I have had. I can't even begin to name all the people that have helped me and guided part of my journey. Thank you one and all.

I challange my friends @broncofan99 @zenart and @catweasel (I owe him one :)

All photos in this post are properly sourced and liscensed.

Unsourced photos are courtesy of the author.

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