When I last wrote a “Been There, Done That” column, I was telling the story of 10-year-old Ricky Mellerup and his mom, dad and faithful canine companion “Cookie” taking a month-long camping trip across the country in the summer of 1965.

I left you after zooming in on a small part of the journey – back-to-back visits to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in southeastern Montana and Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.