Glad to hear you're optimistic. I am too, then, and I hope for the best. Good luck.

Hi Greg,
Yep, health problems. My cancer came back, and therapy has been taking up a lot of my time. I am optimistic about the outcome, but it is wearying none-the-less. Surgery last week, probably for the last time.
Safe travels,
Cheers,
Keith

Hi Keith. I haven't heard from you, nor have I seen any new tours in Bourgandonian (sic) wine country in a while. I know there have been some health problems, so I just wanted to check in.

Hi Rich,
I’m glad you liked my journals. As we immergé from confinement I’m hoping to get back to riding. Unfortunately my doctor visits have become more frequent, so for the time being I’ll be staying close to home. Maybe by fall.......
Cheers,
Keith

Another great journal. Again sent me scurrying to Google maps to figure out where in the heck you were riding! Thanks!

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the kind thoughts. All is well here, or as well as can be expected. We are just emerging from quarantine but it will be a while yet before anything resembling “normal” returns. We can ride our bikes, but only solo rides, no groups. Touring is out, though, as there will be no travelling more than 100 km from home, and the trains are only for people with authorization for work purposes. Masks are required in public places and stores. At the local home supply store yesterday I got my cart and my hands disinfected entering and leaving.
By and large this country has been very disciplined during the confinement. No protests, at least in public, and much support for the national health were the most striking difference that I saw between here and the USA. Fortunately France does not seem to be contaminated by conspiracy theorists or science deniers. We await a vaccine, but will probably stay mostly at home until it’s arrival.
Hope you and yours are safe and staying healthy.
Cheers,
Keith

Hi there Keith. I haven't seen or heard much from you anywhere lately. I hope all is well health-wise, Corona Virus-wise, and with your eyes.
-Your MN pal, Greg

Hi Greg,
Well I’m glad you liked it.
I have been getting email notifications right along, but I use safari as my browser on my iPad. Maybe there is a difference between platforms? Anyway, that’s beyond my competence as I leave the IT stuff to the real nerds.
Cheers,
Keith

Keith,

I thoroughly enjoyed riding and eating along with you on this bike tour. Thank you.

By the way, for some reason I haven't been getting e-mail notifications of your most recent responses to my messages. I was afraid maybe I was a little too sarcastic or something--especially when I compared one of your meals to my Taco Tuesday. Luckily I noticed the brand new "# of comments feature" on the Cycleblaze journals. That feature must have just shown up in the last couple of days. So I clicked on it for the first time ever and saw that you had, in fact, written back.

A hand written menu is definitely a good sign of a quality restaurant, as you say, but such perfect penmanship is practically a GUARANTEE of a quality restaurant. I just wish I could read it.

Even though I can't understand the menu completely, I can pick up on enough of the words to be able to dream about eating it.

Oh wait. I see you've provided some translations with your photos below.

Hi,
Well, its difficult to say which meal was better, but mine tasted good without three margaritas. Yours?
Cheers,
Keith

Hi Greg,
Yeah, it gets me too. On the other hand, there is the French Way: spend as little as possible on « ordinary » things like sleeping, but NEVER skimp on Lunch! The RV owners were probably following this dictum and ate well while sleeping « rough »in their « camping-car ».
Hôtel restaurants are really popular here, and with good reason. One needs a bed after eating oneself into a coma.
Cheers,
Keith

Seeing that beautiful garden tomato carpaccio gave me a fond memory of the diced grocery store tomatoes that were sprinkled on my "taco" at Kuk's Tavern. Your Burgundian-style meal might have been almost as good as my Taco Tuesday experience.

(Sorry, that was probably the stupidest thing I've ever written.)

Looks like a great place to stay. As you know, hotels like that don't exist over here.

Also, the recreational vehicle caught my eye. I always have to laugh when I see an RV parked at a hotel or motel. The idea of staying in an actual hotel in order to take a break from "roughing it" in one's rolling motel room is just too much for me to comprehend.

Oh my!