Welcome from Florida. Dou yourself a favor and buy a 100-150.00 Savinelli with no filters or adaptors. It will provide a cool dry smoke and you will have a baseline as to how a good pipe should smoke so that when you do buy a lemon, you will know it. That is is how I did it and I would never buy cobs and aromatics to start.
Start with these blends that are easy to get. Learn them well and the world of pipe tobacco will open up to you.
Capstan Blue Flake
Peterson University Rolls
Mac Baren Old Dark Fired
Learn all three and it it were me I would dedicate each pipe to each genre of blend.