I'm sitting in the trailer in a Walmart parking lot in Forrest City, Arkansas. Mileage wise today is the longest day of travel .... also the drive through Tyler makes the first two hundred kilometers feel longer. Late this afternoon I was extra happy that we were heading east and not west. Before we even got onto highway 40 in Little Rock, Arkansas there were signs about highway construction and major slowdowns. We continued onto highway 40 as we didn't have an alternative. Sure enough about 30 miles down the road the traffic slowed to a crawl then stopped. Took about 20 minutes of crawling and stopping for the traffic to merge into one lane, then we continued on our way though a bit slower than the posted speed limit. When the east bound traffic was busy merging we noticed that there was no west bound traffic on the highway --- it was all coming down the on ramp. Three quarters of the way through the construction we saw paving repairs being made in the west bound lane --- the reason for the detour. As we continued east we watched the backed up west bound traffic --- about 20 kilometers of it.