Alaskans take full advantage of having warmer weather and sunlight by playing outdoors in the summer. Bree asked me to do the same, so after our day of riding and our dinner, we headed out on her speed boat to see the salmon headed upriver to spawn off of Bear Lake.

A plane landed on the lake, a common occurrence in Alaska, while we were out there. With the mountains in the distance, it was a beautiful way to end the night, under a bright sky in Alaska.

I rode a five-year-old Tobiano Paint horse named Orca, who was wonderful. Bree rode Max, a big, black 16-year-old Percheron Quarter horse mix. We rode by Resurrection River on our way to the beach. As our crew filmed, Bree talked about growing up in the small town of Seward and pointed out Mount Marathon, where there is an annual Fourth of July race up the mountain and back down. Yes, people do travel here to run up and down a mountain. It’s a tradition. Bree has run twice now. I don’t know about ... ...