Hello Teddy Bear & Friends Racers!
Your trackable is safe and sound in the hands of Professor Pocket Query, and is waiting patiently to begin its journey.
And that journey begins in just a few days! Your TB will travel across Ontario, crossing the border at Windsor/Detroit, making it's way west before arriving at Niles MI. Arrangements have been made with MaxB on the River (Maxine and Warren, a caching couple of infamy and note), proprietor of the BIG Orange Travel Bug Convention Centre, to take in and take care of all the Teddy Bear & Friends Racers. If you have ever visited the trackables table at a GeoWoodstock then you have likely met both Maxine and Warren as they organize and run this every year. They absolutely love travel bugs, and have logged and moved more than 28,000 TBs as part of their "MaxB Escorted TB Group Tours". If you want to learn more about MaxB on the River and their travel bug hotel, please take a look at GCK8ZV.
From Niles, your travel bugs will go far and wide. Will they go on a MaxB Escorted TB Group Tour? Will they be picked up at the BIG Orange Travel Bug Convention Center (which is approaching its 1,000th visitor)? Your racer could end up at a Mega event. Or visiting Geocaching HQ. It could get on a plane to Europe or South America or Africa. Or it could be moved along and cherished by a Geocaching family. That's one of the fun parts of a TB race ... you never know what will happen next!
So keep watching your travel bug's page, and the pages of all the other bugs! Updates will happen periodically at TB Run ( http://www.tb-run.com/show-race-TBPICNIC.html ) or you can ask me (DougyB) for a list of the Teddy Bear & Friends TB Racers trackable #s so you can add them to your watch list.
Good luck to your racer!
-DougyB