Waterfest: The Journey Home

[A4ringedONE8T]

So far, driven 1850 miles since Thursday when we left FL for Waterfest. My parents are building two houses in Tennessee so I drove here last night, got in around 11pm last night and spending a few days, then heading back to FL. Got a chance to relax a bit today and take some pictures. First time Ive been in this area so its rather interesting/fun for me!

Drivings a bitch on the car, especially when they are blasting mountains apart to widen roads and have dust EVERYWHERE! Arriving in TN



Some HDR from this evening:

Friends of my parents house, they are building right down the street



There backyard



All cleaned up





Few randoms from this morning





And the views from the two properties where my parents are building, one on a golf course and one on a lake





Leaving tomorrow afternoon to head back to FL, just wanted to share some pics before the final 13 hour and 700 miles or so back home!

Enjoy!

Shawn

[wolfdog]

wow, beautiful.

[NVR STSFD]

Damn, I didn't know Tennessee was such a beautiful place. Love that pic of the friends house.

[HTA A4]

YOU. ARE. MY. HEERRROOOO!!!! Those pictures are sooo bad ass! ESPECIALLY the ones of your car after you washed it!

[covertS4driver]

Nice!!

[AudiA4Turbo22]

superb!

[oregonaudi]

Wow. Tennessee is pretty. I don't know too much about photography, but those pictures make the area look amazing. Your parents sure nabbed a couple sweet pieces of real estate. Can you wakeboard on the lake? Looks big enough - wake limit?

[vc1492a]

wow I live in Knoxville, just about an hour away from the mountains. you guys should drive U.S. 129 sometime, its nicknamed the dragon. 318 curves or something like that in 11 miles, truly amazing...

and yes Tennessee is beautiful. no wake limits except near marinas, oregonaudi

[DownhillA4]

Driving all the way up here in the first place... thats called dedication. That is some beautiful property too, maybe i'll have to rethink about moving south now... but your car looks really good, bummer you had to drive through all that sh*t, I would have been freaking out.

[absolutegtr]

Wow, Tennesse sure is nice.....is real estate expensive there?

[jojoampt]

must be nice to have grown up rich as fuck

[HeHateMe]

wait for it..... wait for it......

must be nice to have grown up rich as fuck

[jojoampt]

what am i waiting for? him to tell me how he made everything for himself or something? im just saying, dudes had like every turbo setup possible for these cars, and hes what 22?? with those pics and shit, it seems like a bit of a brag. sorry if that came out harsh.

wait for it..... wait for it......

[dougyfresh]

Where in TN? Must be on the east side near the Smokies. Beautiful country there.

wow I live in Knoxville, just about an hour away from the mountains. you guys should drive U.S. 129 sometime, its nicknamed the dragon. 318 curves or something like that in 11 miles, truly amazing...

and yes Tennessee is beautiful. no wake limits except near marinas, oregonaudi

Taken the Avant on there. Fun ass road!

[GO-GOTEKNO]

what am i waiting for? him to tell me how he made everything for himself or something? im just saying, dudes had like every turbo setup possible for these cars, and hes what 22?? with those pics and shit, it seems like a bit of a brag. sorry if that came out harsh.

ouch guy!sorry but really no reason to go there

[Carlitos]

ouch guy!sorry but really no reason to go there

x2...


The pics look great. Nice setup.




btw, Shawn you got PM'd.

[A4ringedONE8T]

Wow. Tennessee is pretty. I don't know too much about photography, but those pictures make the area look amazing. Your parents sure nabbed a couple sweet pieces of real estate. Can you wakeboard on the lake? Looks big enough - wake limit?

You sure can, I believe its called Lake Norris, it has 800 miles of shoreline and is more than big enough to do whatever you would like. There arent any speed restrictions that I know of other than around marina's like was said above

[A4ringedONE8T]

what am i waiting for? him to tell me how he made everything for himself or something? im just saying, dudes had like every turbo setup possible for these cars, and hes what 22?? with those pics and shit, it seems like a bit of a brag. sorry if that came out harsh.

Thanks for the comment, I'm 25, have paid for my car and everything on it, and o yea, also own my own tuning business ... www.1552v2.com

Thanks for telling me how everything was handed to me

[swrt83]

Thanks for the comment, I'm 25, have paid for my car and everything on it, and o yea, also own my own tuning business ... www.1552v2.com

Thanks for telling me how everything was handed to me

hahaha, love it. good for your bro, good FOR you

[mtbrider]

Shawn, here is my obligatory, "Nice" post. Have a safe trip back down to Florida.

[Maverick]

besides Shawn's good looking car, the last picture if so beautiful!!!

I want to go there now! ride a jetski or some kind of boat then sit in the middle of the lake, have some buzz, take a swim and do some fishing! god, I want to go bad now!

[CyberPMG]

wow I live in Knoxville, just about an hour away from the mountains. you guys should drive U.S. 129 sometime, its nicknamed the dragon. 318 curves or something like that in 11 miles, truly amazing...

and yes Tennessee is beautiful. no wake limits except near marinas, oregonaudi

Agreed! You owe it to yourself to take US 129 South and experience the Tail of the Dragon. Shows you how well our cars can take twisty roads. The road is in great condition with banked turns. Just be careful about speed as the THP likes to patrol that area. Don't cross the center yellow line, and you'll be ok.

BTW, great pics! The property and the car looks awesome!

[jcg05c]

what am i waiting for? him to tell me how he made everything for himself or something? im just saying, dudes had like every turbo setup possible for these cars, and hes what 22?? with those pics and shit, it seems like a bit of a brag. sorry if that came out harsh.

What a dumbass.



Pics look great man. Yea thats the whole reason i didnt drive to waterfest. 2000k=$300 in gas, i wish i could have. Did you take any pics while there?

[audikid66]

thats sick.. u take bangin pics man

[rxrep]

Shawn, when you get back, can you PM me specs on that camera? It's time I got out of the $25 pocket camera and in to something real.
I txt'd you to txt me when you get home safe.
Have a good rest of the trip home.

And, just to add to the others, jojoampt.... totally uncalled for.

[Turbo_Whip]

Nice car!
What kind of front splitter is that?

[Killerteve]

As usual I knew there would be sick pics when I saw ur name as the thread starter. I've never been to that part of the east coast, it's beautiful. Grats for having such a sick place to go for thanksgiving/christmas lol.

[CO AVANT]

Damn you already put on as many miles on your new engine that I have put on mine over the course of the last 3 months lol. Long trip. I got a 3000 mile trip to Cali in a couple weeks. *Knocks on wood that car survives*

[mike-2ptzero]

Thanks for the comment, I'm 25, have paid for my car and everything on it, and o yea, also own my own tuning business ... www.1552v2.com

Thanks for telling me how everything was handed to me

LOL, come on shawn dont act like your dad hasn't paid for anything that has to do with your car or 1552. Might as well be proud that he has or you might not be where your at now and instead still working at a body shop.

BTW nice shots of TN, I have family there and its where my dad grew up. Been to few nice places not far from Nashville and Memphis.

[B6Lovin]

sick pictures shawn, not many parts of TN (or NC, SC, VA, and GA) are that beautiful - but the parts that are make going there completely worth it.

tail of the dragon is overrated. too much traffic, ESPECIALLY trucks...

come to boone/blowing rock and i'll show you a good time on the twisties..

[mister_tu]

on a golf course??? ridiculous. how sweet would it be to roll out of bed, eat breakfast, and tee off.

[mike-2ptzero]

on a golf course??? ridiculous. how sweet would it be to roll out of bed, eat breakfast, and tee off.

LOL, how great would it be to roll out of bed, eat breakfast and then get hit in the head with a 100 mph golf ball when you walk into your back yard?

[B6Lovin]

LOL, how great would it be to roll out of bed, eat breakfast and then get hit in the head with a 100 mph golf ball when you walk into your back yard?

only slightly less sweet than being the guy who hit the ball lol

[mike-2ptzero]

sick pictures shawn, not many parts of TN (or NC, SC, VA, and GA) are that beautiful - but the parts that are make going there completely worth it.

tail of the dragon is overrated. too much traffic, ESPECIALLY trucks...

come to boone/blowing rock and i'll show you a good time on the twisties..

Not good places in TN? You have to be kidding. Where do you think all of the country singers live? They all live near nashville in huge houses next to lakes, plenty of them even own their own lakes.

[dougyfresh]

Not good places in TN? You have to be kidding. Where do you think all of the country singers live? They all live near nashville in huge houses next to lakes, plenty of them even own their own lakes.

Yeah. In Brentwood TN just outside of Nashville.




I used to work maintenance on a golf course and got hit many times by golf balls. Its not fun.

[B6Lovin]

Not good places in TN? You have to be kidding. Where do you think all of the country singers live? They all live near nashville in huge houses next to lakes, plenty of them even own their own lakes.

right.

only a handful of towns out of the whole state look like that - thus is the case with the states around them (to varying degrees). I've lived in this area my whole life and it's the sad truth of things.. then again nothing is perfect and there aren't many places left in the WORLD where anywhere you go you can find views like that (sans golf course LOL)

but like i said, those few places around here that are that beautiful make you kinda sit back and really enjoy things...

p.s. - I've lived in or have good friends that live in most of the areas on the east coast which people consider to be "rich" ...so its nothing new, and im not oblivious to the whole thing. I was just stating that most of our states seem like they're farm land, factories, or just a waste of space with no real natural beauty left. (for instance - the entire cary/raleigh/apex/durham area has been reduced to business centers and subdivisions... even lakes carr, jordan, harris, and gaston aren't that nice anymore.. and half of those are man-made)

[B6Lovin]

I used to work maintenance on a golf course and got hit many times by golf balls. Its not fun.

so THAT'S why..... and here i thought you were just special

[dougyfresh]

so THAT'S why..... and here i thought you were just special

Go ahead. You guys keep making fun. Enjoy it while you can.

[B6Lovin]

Go ahead. You guys keep making fun. Enjoy it while you can.

will do!

[jojoampt]

i wasnt saying everything was "handed" to you... just saying, you look pretty damn wealthy... must be nice.. what else am i supposed to take from those pics? i didnt say you were an asshole or anything. and yeah, i know you own a shop, and i know you are very knowlegeable. i was a bit tipsy on red wine last night so i will apologize for the harshness; but i still highly doubt you didnt have ANY help from mom and dad but ill quit shitting all over your thread now.
car looks sick as always...

Thanks for the comment, I'm 25, have paid for my car and everything on it, and o yea, also own my own tuning business ... www.1552v2.com

Thanks for telling me how everything was handed to me