The trip came about because Steve left
Read College and started working for
Atari. So he had money, he had thousands
of dollars and Atari had a problem in
Switzerland
with their video games so they paid for
him to go to Switzerland and so he had
free travel. He only had to buy a ticket
from Geneva to Delhi. I didn't have any money, I was a
student and he offered to loan me the
money for a ticket if I would go with
him. But Neem Karoli had passed away that
fall so we knew we weren't going to see
him in person but we thought we would go
to the ashram anyway. It was a
small ashram in the foothills. We went to that ashram and it was
deserted. Nothing was happening. I
wasn't that disappointed, I didn't really
have any expectations. Steve was a
little more goal oriented and he wanted
to meet a yogi who would tap him on the
forehead and he would be enlightened. It didn't
happened. That's what he told Walter
Isaacson who wrote the biography about Steve.
He said we figured out we weren't gonna
get enlightened in 30 days. Steve was
impatient to go to India
so although we were supposed to meet at
a certain time he arrived a week early. Because I was finishing my final
exams and so when I got to New Delhi he
wasn't there and I didn't know
what to do. I was just wandering around.
three days went by that I was wandering
around in New Delhi, I didn't know anybody, didn't know what to do
and then I just ran into Steve downtown. I didn't recognize him because he had shaved all his hair.
He had already gone to the Kumbh Mela with
someone else
He got sick right away and then
said I'm out of here.
How long have you been in India? 
I was there four months and Steve was there
a little less than four months I think.
