 They looked at me. They looked at me. They believed they will tell their friends and they will all come. Then at 3.30 in the morning, I got up and went out. Then I saw Dave look. I must tell you my experience of landing in Dave look. This was probably maybe 85, 86, 1985 or 86, I'm not sure, one of those two years. So I go to Himalayas and I'm alone, I trek, I just have… I don't have any woolen clothing because I live in South India. And I just have t-shirts, little thicker ones and I have one canvas jacket. Canvas jackets do well in South because it rains. So I'm always in the canvas jacket because I'm riding on my motorcycle. If it rains, I never had that. I never allowed bad weather to stop me from doing what I'm doing, whatever it may be. Whether I'm playing a game or I'm riding or traveling, I never allowed bad weather to interfere with what I'm doing. So even if it's pouring monsoon rains, I'll be just riding. So always there's a canvas jacket with me. People from Bangalore should know flying machine jackets. But when you go to Himalayas, when it gets cold, the canvas gets colder than normal clothing. Actually cotton clothing would be better, canvas gets so cold. So there's no way I can wear this jacket for the first time I realize, canvas jacket doesn't work in altitudes. All over South India, it did well for me. The highest altitude I reached is Utti and Kodaikanal. So it protected me pretty well, but I went there and I couldn't wear this canvas jacket. So I had to take it off and just walk around in t-shirts when temperatures are like minus three, minus four degrees centigrade. Then those days there were Bhukhartal buses. These buses are called Bhukhartal. Bhukhartal means hunger strike. During 3.30 a.m., it will leave Haridwar. One of those small short chassid, junk tata buses. The roads were not like how it is today. The Himalayan roads were fabulous. In my experience they were fabulous because almost every corner the bus looked like almost going to fall off. And I always went and sat on the top. Almost every year from Haridwar to wherever I went, Gomukh, Kedar, Badri, I travelled on top of the bus. And I know every bend in the Himalayan road. About five years ago when I was driving, people who were driving with me were terrified because I was hitting like 130, 140 on the Himalayan tracks because I know every bend. I know every rock, every corner, it's like a video in my mind. If I just turn it on, it's like I'm seeing the road two bends ahead all the time. Those moments of sitting there on top of the bus and drinking in the Himalayas, even today I have a perfectly unedited video of the road of complete 12-14 hours drive. Now the theory dam has changed, I've got a little confused near that place because the dam diverted the route. Otherwise the video, if I turn it on, it just plays on for me even today. So I sit on the bus and I reached there. That day the bus broke down halfway and there was some little bit of avalanche, landslides. We reached late at Badri. We had to cross the gate at six o'clock or six thirty but we didn't make it and then the driver somehow begged the gate and opened and we reached there around eight thirty in the evening. It was raining a little bit, cold. I can't wear my canvas jacket. So I'm in my t-shirt all my muscles stiff but I'm young. There's no substitute for that. So I went around and I'm trying to find myself in accommodation. I'm a super-budget traveler. Normally, wherever else I went in New Delhi, I always slept in the bus station, ISBT. I've slept in that station any number of nights. In Haridwar, I slept in the bus station. In Rishikesh, I always slept in the Bank of Ganga. It's only further up when it gets cold. In Uttar Kashi, I always slept outside. Only when I went further up into the cold, I need a place. Then I'm looking for one cheap accommodation somewhere to put my head down, I'm exhausted. I got some food to eat. That's one thing in North India, you get roti and aloo aloo aloo aloo aloo aloo aloo aloo four different varieties. In twenty-twenty-five days of journey, only the potato is hanging in your head. Being from South India, you're desperately hoping somewhere there'll be some little rice and rasam that you can slurp down, which feels like food. So I ate the aloo aloo. After the aloo treatment, I'm looking for a place. No place. They said every hotel is full. They were not this many, they were just one or two. They were all full. Then I went into an ashram, I forget the name of the ashram anyway. I went in and I said I want to see Swamiji, whoever is there. After much haggling, they took me inside. I had eyes that they could not ignore. Now my eyes are like overworked and not the same. I had no beard, but I had eyes that they cannot ignore. So they took me in. Then I went there, two really nice big swamis, full orange robe, big bearded. They were like… I went and I said I have come from South and I don't have a place to lie down. And I'm all wet. My t-shirt is wet. I don't have a change because all my clothes in my have a sack are wet by now. So I need a place to lie down. They looked at me, what do you do with this, that? I said I'm beginning to teach what I know. Hmm! Usko devlok me dal dal. I thought, oh wow! This is my fortune. They're going to put me in devlok, devlok me dal dal. All the stories that you've heard about devlok, I went. They took me inside a building like this, like this, alley after alley. Then they gave me a room. The whole… the whole room was laid with beds, nobody there. So I went and I said thank you and I put my bag down, I just want to hit the sack. I hit the sack. So much water in the beds, just see it all came. Oh my God! Okay, this bed is wet. I slept on that bed. That is also wet. This bed, this is also wet. But in spite of so much water, it did not drown the bugs. When I lie down, they bite me here, they bite me there. And I rolled and rolled and rolled, there are about eight beds I think. I rolled across eight beds throughout the night just to make sure all the bugs are evenly fed. I could have at least stayed in one bed. Once they're satisfied maybe they would have also slept. But I believed they will tell their friends and they will all come. I just wanted to confuse them a bit, lying here, lying there, lying there. Then I couldn't sleep beyond three thirty in the morning, the treatment of the bugs and cold bed… you know, watery beds, not cold, wet, not damp, totally. Like if you lie on it, your clothes will soak up, including your underwear, everything is wet in that cold. So then at three thirty in the morning, I got up and went out. Then I saw Dave look. I was like no sleep and I thought I'd just get myself a tea and carelessly little bit walking like this. Then I just looked up. The whole valley is pitch dark. Just the mountain peak was white and golden, lit by the sun from elsewhere. I burst into tears. Then I knew I was in Dave look. No, it's our look which is so beautiful that you don't have to go to Dave look. So that's my experience of Dave look.