Hello @southern.ranger. This is nice and you make your story very good explanation. Let me help you as my experience.

1. Use tag relation for your post. This post related to use #travelfeed #travel #photography
2. To introduce who you are, please make an introduction. Use tag #introduceyourself #introduction #introducemyself #steem-promo #steem and place where you are from
3. Please join @paulag's program for redfish and @steemcommunity @steemterminal for new user.
4. And I think you can use @esteemapp, just download it in playstore : esteem mobile.
5. Or for your trip story you can make a post using @trips.teem.

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