If you ever get a chance to go from Johnson City, TN to Moravian Falls, NC (just south of Wilkesboro, NW of Statesville), pass on it, because you have to deal with this... 99 miles and nearly 3 hours of S-turns and hairpins, and locals wanting you to speed up like you know the road. OMG. Just shoot me.
And then once you get out of the mountains into Wilkesboro, you think you're almost there, but no. It's right back up into the mountains.
Your #1 source for beekeeping supplies. And really large bees, apparently.
It beats auto freight, I guess.
Fortunately, I didn't pick up any actual bees. It was a bunch of bee hive bodies.
Took 'em to the top of another mountain in Somerset, VA, very near President James Madison's Montpelier home, which I drove past on the way back out heading towards Richmond.
Give me straight and flat Iowa or Kansas any day.