Tail of the Dragon U.S. 129 8_22_2017

I learned of this stretch of highway when my GPS routed me this way to Murphy North Carolina from Cades Cove Tennessee, Smokey Mountain National Park when I was going to photograph the Solar Eclipse in August of 2017. On my return trip I mounted 1 of my 3 GoPro cameras to the hood of my 2001 Chevy Silverado LS 8.1 2500HD 496 Big Block with Allison Transmission. This is the only dry road in the United States that has ever made me white knuckled; it took me 3x across it to lose that feeling. In an 11 mile stretch drivers encounter 318 banked curves a few hundred feet above a reservoir between the States of Tennessee and North Carolina.