MOSHI HERE I COME

 ON  Thursday  19^th October 2023, very early in the morning I headed for Ngamiani bus station in Tanga, I was on my way to Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region, as soon as I arrived at the bus stop a heavy rain began, I just managed to get into the bus before the real pounding began. The bus I was to travel in had a strange name Channel One Express, right on time  at 8:30 the journey began.

 
 I have always  loved travelling, in 1974 in my younger more adventurous days, I had travelled on my Honda 125 CC motorbike from Iringa to Arusha via Chalinze and back to Iringa again, I did that twice, a distance of more than 1600 kilometers, enjoying all the way.
At about three in the afternoon I arrived in Moshi, I could clealry see the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, it was clear and cloudless. I  called my host to inform him that I had arrived, my host in Moshi was my friend  Florian Mshana. Funny even though we knew each other very well but we had never met, thanks to the internet. Mshana was a member of my very active Whatsap Group, the group members just talks about old stuff not only music, but mostly music, so quite interesting conversations arise now and then, about the music

Mshana directed me to the Uhuru Park a short distance from Moshi main bus station, and there he was waiting for me. When we met we clicked right away, it was then when I learnt that Mshana was a retired police officer, though he didn’t look very old to me. We talked a lot mostly about music, as he already had plans for my next day, we agreed on a rough timetable, the next day we would meet several Moshi elderly people. I particularly wanted to meet a musician from Orchestra Zaire Success, a band that was one of the top bands in Moshi in the 70s, I has a black and white picture of the band, I had blown it up and framed it, and wanted to personally give the musician this photo of his younger days, I knew he would love the present.
Mshana then escorted me to a nice lodge not far from there, a place I would be staying for the next three or four days. Moshi was going to be interesting