🗽 Article 2: “The East Coast Illusion”Flying LAX to JFK

Flying LAX to JFK

Flying from LAX to JFK is like watching a movie in fast-forward while pretending it’s live. You leave Los Angeles in the morning, and by the time you land in New York, it’s already late afternoon. But the flight only took five hours.

The trick? Time zones. You lose three hours in the air, and it feels like the day evaporated somewhere over Kansas. It’s almost the same illusion as flying to Toronto—except JFK greets you with honking taxis and existential dread instead of polite customs officers and maple-scented air.

Still, there’s something cinematic about it. You leave palm trees and arrive to brownstones. You trade In-N-Out for bagels. You cross a continent and gain nothing but perspective.

It’s not teleportation. It’s temporal sleight of hand.