October 30: a travel day: we take the long drive back to Frankfurt and catch a flight to Heathrow. After another long ride we arrive at the RAF base in Mildenhall. We have dinner at the Bird in Hand pub right outside one of the base gates, then repair to our rooms.
October 31:Halloween is spent shuttling between the Lakenheath and Mildenhall base D-Facs (dining facilities) and PXs. Here were are ar Lakenheath (sans Kathy): http://tinyurl.com/n4oqdnj
We also stop at the Mildenhall base library where we meet and greet soldiers and talk about writing and sign their books. We've brought a limited supply of our own titles and these are gone by the end of the day.
On the last night of the Operation Thriller USO tour, Harlan Coben has rented a car to go back to London for an early a.m. meeting. So after a farewell dinner at the Bird in Hand, Heather Graham and I tag along so we can get an early start to Brighton the next day.
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