I live in Baltimore,MD and have went for a good percentage of the time for the past 10 or so years and if you never been and like the beach and traffic and bars on every corner and buying junk from vendors,well this might be your venue.....They have just started adding music acts that maybe some have heard of before,but nothing at all like the bands at Sturgis...we now stay at a campground,relax,go have a seafood dinner,go for long backroads coastal rides up and down the coastline...all because we dont drink....Definately listen to Dogestyle about the police situation..harder on bikers than terrorists ....All in all its a nice time for us cause its not that far....Any event is what you make it and the company you keep....I come home relaxed,with good stories and the crap wiped outta my brain....a nice therapeutic riding situation...