I re-read your Band account and should have had a street map handy to follow it! I wrote a 4th of July account long ago that was published in the Berlin Observer May 1999 issue. (I joined after Clyde Cates found me online. I had given up looking to see if there was a Berlin veterans’ group just before it got online.) My 4th turned out to have gotten me out of a month of Spandau guard duty during a time when my sister and her future husband were visiting Berlin, so I didn’t have it as bad as I first thought.
-- rwr