Awesome post!! You will most certainly be welcomed and appreciated here on Steemit. It is a wonderful community and you will fit right in! But don't feel bad about not knowing about it. I was invited to a small conference with 40 different crypto-currency "experts" and not a single one had heard of steemit and by the end of the conference all of them had become steemians!
Love your adventure and the way you are chronicling it. Good luck and stay safe stay safe, yehaw.....
RE: Why didn't I know about Steemit till now!!