This book is a lot in all the best ways. I found myself stopping constantly to think about all the questions Odell was asking about time and how we (are urged to) spend it. And evaluating my own relationship with work and time and the having of time and, just, all the things. 
Also, she's just such a good writer and the way she invites you equally into the research as into the travelogue means you are constantly being drawn along, almost outside of your own time, into these set pieces of moments that she builds for you. They cohere, but they don't specifically go places, which is the point.
I was also amused at how many of her references I've read - it's been over a decade since I had to read Bergson and Taylor. Heschel was a bit more recent.