Hey @stonerhousewife!
As promised here we are to give you some tips and recommendations regarding your blog.

First of all, the combination of interests is very nice (unique). What might work especially good is the "adventurer" part. Traveling, adventuring, hiking, etc. is very well received on steemit.

Talking about this specific article we're commenting right now, you might improve the following in your next one:

1. Try to adjust your pictures and don't twist them
2. Cut these black frames out of the images, even if it takes some time the quality of images will be appreciated by your readers
3. Try to use cross headings to structure your story, it helps to improve the legibility.

I've just seen that you didn't use the tag #introduceyourself in your first introduction. That one is quite important since a lot of whales (people with influence) check the related trending page and vote for newcomers.

So I'd recommend you to do another introduction where you try to precisely inform your audience about what they are going to find in your blog. Try to point out 2-3 things people might remember. You shouldn't overload it (too much info / too many pictures). Remember that in social media people's attention span is very short, so the shorter the merrier :-)

Last advice: try to use tags that are not used by all of the users. #life and #story, for instance, are tags are used by everybody since they are generic.
Try to stand out in the niches, in areas where you might make it to the top!
Use tags that mirror your story. For this one here for example you should have used the tag "music" intead of "interesting".

Study the blogs from other users that are performing better than you are and try to learn from them. Ask yourself what they do better/differently and then apply what you see. Life is learning and so it happens on steemit :-)

We hope you appreciate our help.
Have a good time here, the rest is unimportant :-)

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