Have a look at these

I have continued to plough my way through the first storage box of old slides. They seem to be quite random, with slides from Scotland, the USA and Costa Rica in one box, slides from Seychelles and Maine in another and loads of pictures of Africa. This reflects the fact that we got around quite a lot! I remember that I took 26 rolls of film the first time we went to Kenya, and I've been back a lot of times since. I have not yet opened a box that didn't have something worth scanning, so we are in for months of work to get through the rest.

Just to give you a chronology, the pictures roughly divide into the following categories:

• Recent and Old family Pictures
  
• The USA from many trips to Chicago and from our honeymoon.
  
• France, from a trip we took with James and Robin in the mid 80s
  
• Italy from a trip we took when Nick was tiny
  
• Yellowstone, mostly from two winter visits 25 years ago
  
• Africa, from a Kenyan Safari 25 years ago
  
• Slides from the Falklands, Ascension and the Caribbean
  
• Seychelles from the 3 years we lived there and subsequent visits by me
  
• Ancient slides from our days at Vane Farm in Scotland.

Just for starters, let's go to Yellowstone. We first popped in on our honeymoon, 27 years ago. It was September, but the passes through the South end of the park into Wyoming were already closed due to snow. We had to go back up to Gardener and follow the Yellowstone River out through Montana. We then drove all night down to South Dakota with the Rockies on our right. I must find the pictures of Little Bighorn and Mount Rushmore!

Later we returned for two winter visits. First we went to Steamboat Springs in Colorado for New Years', then flew with Rocky Mountain Airlines from Denver to Aspen, Jackson Hole and a couple of other stops before landing at Boseman. I remember the roller-coaster ride in snow, with the plane constantly landing or taking off on airstrips that were hemmed in my mountains. We then had an amazing week at Mammoth Springs and Old Faithful. The only way in was by snow-coach and we got around on skis the whole time we were there.

Next time we flew straight from Chicago to Billings, then Boseman, then we stayed at the north entrance in an amazing place called Chico Hot Springs. Then we moved to Lone Mountain Ranch which lies near to West Yellowstone.

I hope we get back there some day. Meanwhile Have a look at these ://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh129/jimstevenson2/Yellowstone%20Winter/