My journey to mimipackslight.com has been a convoluted one to say the least. It certainly didn't start out light. In fact, my first trip with a group of college friends started out on the heavier side. Back in 1969, with our schools based in Philadelphia, you would think that a short trip (an overnighter) to New York City for the St. Patrick's Day parade would have been a piece of cake. Not so for our novice group. You would have thought we were on route to a new life out west, packing everything we owned -- well, almost. We were savvy enough to book a room at the Waldorf Astoria but not savvy enough to know that it was a bit over-the-top to pack a very heavy electric skillet along with a pantry supply of canned goods. College kids get hungry you know. Well, there we were in the big city with suitcase upon suitcase filled with complete wardrobes, frying pans, spatulas, china plates (No paper for this group; we were at the Waldorf after all) and our first bottles of cheap liquor. The drinking age in Pennsylvania was 21 at the time, but, fortunately for us, New York, undergoing a lapse in good sense, had lowered theirs to 18! We drank, we cooked, we ate, drank some more, ate some more, nearly burnt the place down, drank a little more (maybe a lot), and then we saw green. But not from the St. Paddy's parade, which I'm not certain we ever saw anyway!
