Perth to Bloomington by car (and kayak)

On my var­i­ous beer-fuelled wan­der­ings around the inter­net this week, I came across Rad­Fest, a mini metal and beer fest being held on June 5 in the Upland brew­ery in Bloom­ing­ton, Indi­ana in the good ole’ United States of Amer­ica. Play­ing at the event are a num­ber of metal bands includ­ing Dead­men, Coffin­worm and Bible of the Devil.

Sounds awe­some! I plugged the address into Google Maps and selected “get direc­tions by car”, but unfor­tu­nately it’s going to be a long drive from my cur­rent loca­tion — cut­ting across the north of Aus­tralia to Japan by kayak, pad­dling across the North Pacific with a lovely stopover in Hawaii to enter the United States at Wash­ing­ton, then dri­ving across coun­try to Bloom­ing­ton. It’s only a tri­fling 25,000 kilo­me­tres, but the 53 day jour­ney means that sadly, the event will be long over by the time I get there.

Maybe some­one who lives closer can go and take some pic­tures for us…

Do you have any cool “beer n’ metal” events in your home town?