ROLLING THUNDER, 2015: Here are some photos we took of the Rolling Thunder motorcycle parade on Sunday. These pictures were taken shortly after it began at 1 p.m.

Rolling Thunder begins. Staging all the motorcycles begins at 7 a.m. at the Pentagon parking lot.

The cyclists are turning onto the Memorial Bridge leading from Arlington National Cemetery into Washington D.C.

Here's a closeup of the cycles entering the turn. The yellow one in the lead looks like a small car, but it's essentially a motorcycle with a sidecar. We saw several of these.

People were lined up 2-3 deep all the way across the bridge.

Here they come. You can see yellow cycle from above in the background.

A final view taken from the Memorial Bridge itself.

The Potomac River from the Memorial Bridge. There were a number of boats on the water watching as the motorcycles crossed above them. I wish now that I had walked further onto the bridge to get a photo.

Motorcycles were still crossing the Memorial Bridge when we finally left about 4:30 p.m. After all the bad political (read that as Obama administration) news we've been bombarded with over the last several weeks, my faith in American exceptionalism has been somewhat restored. While we were standing there, a motorcycle with one (and usually two) riders passed in front of us about once a second. In 3-1/2 hours, that amounts to about 20,000 cyclists and an equal or greater number of people who came to participate.

Good news.