My assumption is he had a plan to keep it simple and go A to B and back to A. Jump the first metro lights south of darkness.
Your assumption is he bailed on his first plan (east heading west), got on another plane and then changed up his second plan (Seattle to Mexico) when he didn’t have to and then panicked (because he agreed to Reno) and jumped at random.
I think mine makes more sense. We don’t have to agree.