Wake up, pack everything, hop on the bus. I make it to a place called Usangi, in the Pare Mountains, a village and a mountain chain that no one has ever heard of. But the guidebook says it's a decent place for a self-guided (read: cheap) hike, and it's only an hour or two from Moshi. Random, but hilly, green, and beautiful.
I make it in, and once again am the only foreigner in the entire village. No one knew where any hiking trails were (or, more accurately, because they are Tanzanian, they merely pretend to speak English, and just say "yes" or "no" randomly until you stop trying to ask them anything). But I finally found one, and was able to summit the hill on the same day. From the top, I could see all the way to Kenya. Mountain ranges in the distance, and a massive lake filled out the landscape.
So I finally got my hike in.
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