One distinct advantage of trailering at any age is it allows you to bring things along for activities that you couldn’t when riding distance. And time away from work/home is always an issue, besides the expense. Many wives/significant others will put up with our riding habit, but not necessarily embrace being a part of it. One year in Sturgis we trailered three bikes and drove in shifts, about 45-hours road time with stops only for food/gas, so we could spend more time in the Black Hills once we arrived. It still took two weeks of difficult to come by vacation time round trip, which was about the longest I could be away from my office at one time then. On another Sturgis trip I spent a few days in the Badlands with a telescope system under dark sky, which was well worth the effort – certainly couldn’t do that on two wheels. I like riding distance, just getting on the road and going, but my BSR is no fan of hours riding the interstate system, so I go it alone these days if riding out. I’d rather not trailer but sometimes that’s the only way to make it work if the destination is several thousand miles distant.