Course, this being Olympia, he may very well have thought he was making some sort of profound statement.
What really makes it dumb is that there's a bike path that runs pretty much right along the Interstate.
Just now, I was on the phone with Steve, standing in the driveway and a couple of F16s flew over...pretty low...lower than usual anyway and the roar was just awesome! If I hadn't had my phone in my hand, I woulda waved the flag at them, because they might have been low enough to see. Alas, they were too fast for me to put down the phone and get the flag off the house!
But directly...not a minute or two later, along comes an AWACS! Right behind them, just about.
God bless 'em. Lord, keep 'em safe.
Just as an FYI, there *is* actually, or at least used to be, a short section of the freeway where you can ride a bike on the shoulder, but it's not where he was, it's the section right at Nisqually where there is no alternative crossing.