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On the way back, we made a first left turn and found ourselves at another checkpoint. The military guards there were much more serious. They came up to us and told us that we were wrong way and we had turn back. As we understood, the guards at the first gate told them about us, and we actually arrived at the entrance to the US Airforce Base, which military aircraft guarded the Kennedy Space Center.

We did not want to check the Space Center security system anymore and headed home. On the way back from Cape Canaveral, we stopped for a swim at the beautiful Cocoa Beach in the moonlight.

In a few days, our next sea swim was in Miami. We drove at night directly into the wonderful sand beach in the city center and stayed there until the dawn. However, after sunrise, a girl, walking the dog on the beach in the early morning hour, told us that we should not park the car on the beach. We were surprised, as we did not see any warning and all the gates to the beach were open. However, she told us the gates would close soon, and we harried out of the beach to escape the mousetrap.

Thus, we spent the whole week in the Disney World during daytime and driving about Florida at night, looking for adventure.

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Another memorable event took place in July 1993 in Falmouth, Cape Cod. I was staying at the Inn at One Main, a small, cozy hotel run by two young women. They were very welcoming and friendly, serving guests in about eight rooms on two floors of the inn. In the morning, all the guests gathered together around one table for a wonderful breakfast, consisting of at least five courses. I have never had breakfast any better than at that Inn at One Main since.

One day, my friend and associate Ted Landreth, an independent documentary producer from Los Angeles, told me on the phone that our new 50 minute documentary about Deborah Robertson of Los Angeles, the daughter of U.S. Air Force Colonel Robertson, who went missing in action in Vietnam during the American involvement in the Vietnam war in 1965–1973, would air on the Discovery Channel the following Sunday.

The documentary was filmed in Russia and Kazakhstan in 1992. In the movie, Deborah searched for her father in prisons and psychiatric hospitals in Moscow and Almaty. She believed that her father’s plane might be shot down in Vietnam and he might be taken prisoner by the Vietnamese and handed over to the Russian authorities, who might had still be holding him by force somewhere in Russia or, probably. Kazakhstan. My role in the film was Deborah's translator and interpreter.

I told the young ladies that they might watch the film and see me act. They were thrilled and decided to invite all the inn guests to watch the film together. The following Sunday, they set up a television on the lawn in front of the inn and arranged tables and chairs for the guests to enjoy the film.

In addition, for the first time, they cooked us all a wonderful dish for lunch. Before that, they had only served us breakfast. I remember how delicious the local clam chowder was, and we all really enjoyed the movie and the dish.

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PLACES

Another remarkable place in Falmouth, not far from my Inn at One Main, was the Katherine Lee Bates House, the birthplace of the author of "America the Beautiful." She was born in that house at 16 Main Street on August 12, 1859. Katherine Lee Bates became famous throughout the country as a poet, educator, and scholar. Her famous poem "America the Beautiful" was inspired by her trip to Pike’s Peak in Colorado.