"We will be working to improve your riding as we go." McAllen set his horse into a trot and Cal followed suit.

"A Navy officer riding a horse?" Cal found the rhythm and settled into it. Her legs were going to complain.

McAllen slowed to a walk. "There are tales of ships so big the captain rode a horse from one end to the other." He laughed at Cal's eye roll. "No skill is ever wasted."

After a pleasant ride with him pointing out sights on the way they arrived at a towering ...