I traveled from London to New York in November of 2019 and December of 2022. The westbound legs took eight hours, 15 minutes each by the traditional airborne method. The eastbound return journey? Seven days and seven nights each time.
It takes only seconds to send an e-mail from what we used to call the New World to the Old World. A few days more for snail mail. But I will willingly give up one week to get from A to B, from N.Y. to U.K., and this is why.
