By Betsa Marsh
The Traveling Teddy’s still catching her breath from ferocious adventures in Indiana–no one told her the state was so wild!
Little did Teddy know during lunch at the Naked Tchopstix that she would need all the luck she could get in Indiana. Betsa Marsh photo
Teddy, who will be adopted and named by the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder this fall, learned to mold liquid glass into a paperweight at 
the Indianapolis Art Center. It sure was fun, but man, where those furnaces HOT!! Students as young as Mrs. Schroeder’s can take the class-Teddy gives it paws up.
Teddy is part of the Traveling Teddy geography outreach program of the Society of American Travel Writers.
Then, just when she thought things were cooling off, Teddy jumped back into trouble at Stapp’s Circle S Ranch in Greensburg, Ind. Jim Stapp was nice enough to show her all the animals,
Boo-Boo reaches out for her little cousin.
from bison and billy goats to wallabies and wolves. But when she got to the den for the American black bear–look out! Kinship only goes so far–Boo-Boo and Yogi, 18-month old 
bears, were very interested in their little stuffed cousin. Whew! She escaped by the fur on her head and took off for home.
