My father (Skip) use to like to hunt. As a little kid and even as a young adult I really didn't understand the appeal. Skip use to bring things home and butcher them in the garage. We would end up with a freezer full of meat wrapped in white paper with hand written labels identifying the contents. What I learned later was that it wasn't the trophy Skip was after, it was the day. He loved getting up early, taking a travel trailer out to some place off the beaten path and taking a walk. The descriptions of how his weekend went were almost poetic. Seeing his breath in the cool morning air, the sunrise, the deep grass or the steep hill he climbed. It was the whole experience, the journey not the destination that mattered.

Picture of Hatchet Ranch, Colorado June 2007 We could see approx 120 miles today. This was taken from the house the buyers are interested in.

For me selling real estate is much the same way. It's the discovery of a new type of house, a new neighborhood and the buyers or sellers I'm working with. I try not to talk to much, let the people I'm with talk to me. If you listen, you can hear many unspoken things. It the experience, the senses that you find interesting when you walk onto a property. It's the give and take, it's the journey I find appealing. OK the destination is a very nice perk.

Today I took out some people who found me in the Rain. They drove for days, hauled a trailer and hunted for places to stay every night. Together we went out on the hunt. They had a list of houses they wanted to see found on the internet. But what we discovered for them was a new journey as well as a destination. A new way of life and the joy of finding something new, the life yet to come.

This was also part of our journey today. This house had approx 20 trophies on the walls.

Thanks for a great day Penny, Marshall and Bob!