Moving to Knoxville Travel Bug Race

2021 UPDATE

WE HAVE A WINNER!

3 year after my last update I had pretty much forgotten about these TBs and figured none would ever complete their goal. Such is the way for TBs. But today, on January 31st, 2021, I got a log on one of the TBs that has still been active recently... and it was just left in Knoxville! 

 2018 UPDATE
Well, it's been a good four years now since this TB race was kicked off and all the TBs are now marked as missing. Two of them made it fairly close to Tennessee, one to Virginia and another to north Carolina. Only one state away! Alas, the 6 TBs have failed to have a discovery or move in over a year now so it's time to put this TB race to bed. TB61NEZ better known as the Bonhomme de Quebec, won the race!

ORIGINAL PAGE
 After 8 years of living in Las Cruces, NM we are finally moving. It was inevitable, my wife finished her PhD and got a post-doc elsewhere. I'm actually quite surprised that we ended up in Las Cruces for so long. I've grown to love this part of New Mexico, with it's rugged mountains and vast deserts. But Tennessee means new adventures. What better way to kick off a new adventure than with a little travel bug race?

I've released 6 new travel bugs all with the mission of reaching Knoxville, Tennessee. With my other travelbugs, I've come to realize that giving them a mission is no guarantee they'll go where you want. But I figure with 6 travel bugs, one of them is bound to make it. Hey, I'm moving out there, why shouldn't they? I will manually update this page every so often to show where they all are, and any notable places they've been.

Name	Track	Hops	Status	Current Location	Interesting Notes
Fugads' Angry Bird	TB61NER	0	Missing?	Las Cruces, NM	Declared missing. Don't know why Marcy never logged this one somewhere. A local NM cacher logged a find on this in 2020, but then hasn't shown it as moved.
Dream Catcher	TB61NF1	21	Missing		Climbed 5th class rock to reach MRE. Given to Combatnurse2003 and taken east to North Carolina. Went missing shortly after.
Bonhomme de Quebec 2001	TB61NEZ	4	133	Knoxville, TN	WINNER on January 31, 2021
Land of Enchantment	TB61NE3	41	Missing		Released 5/10/14 at the Cadillac Ranch. Visited Reno, NV, then to East Coast somehow. Wenty missing shortly after.
Lost GPSr:Magellan SporTrak	TB61N3V	21	Missing		Released 5/7/14 to Mr. Waldo, placed in a cache that was disabled! Then retrieved by CO. Given to Anymoore, who I met at an event last fall.
Just Drifting Along	TB61NEQ	1	Missing		Reported as no longer in the cache I dropped it in. Marked as missing.