Nina Sodin – Roaming Pencil (BOV)

Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith

English - June 10, 2024 10:05 - 59.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 78 ratings
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Nina Sodin stares at Google Maps until she finds a place she wants to visit. She looks for a volunteering opportunity, a house sit, or a nice host. Then she hitchhikes there, meets new people (and new animals), talk to them, and makes cartoons about the them. Repeat.

I blog about my nomadic life on roamingpencil.com

Nina Sodin Vroom Veer Stories

Born in Ukraine and moved around quite a bit; moved to Israel at age 8

Grew up in Israel; in High School got into soap operas from Argentina; learned some Spanish

Served her mandatory service in the Army; switch jobs to fix electronics instead of secretary work

Went to college for a while; mostly learned about animation; liked the video editing, writing, drawing

Decided she wanted to travel full time and write/blog/draw about her adventures

She mostly hitchhikes as a way to meet people and make friends and have adventures

Finds places to stay mostly for free by house sitting and coach surfing

Nina Sodin Connections

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