Sankoco Butter

Spoken Word Poet

Botanical Artist

Bus Dwelling Nomad

currently on

The Ultimate Solo Savage Voyage

Welcome!

THE ULTIMATE SOLO SAVAGE VOYAGE SO FAR

June 2022- August ‘22: Backpacking Summer Camp Counselor in the Trinity Alps Wilderness

September ‘22- December ‘22: Outdoor Education Naturalist in the San Bernadino Wilderness

December ‘22- February ‘23: Dhammadharini Female Buddhist Monastery under the Nekkhama Precepts

February ‘23: Slab City, an Anarchist Artist Village in the Desert

March ‘23: Wilderness First Responder Training on Santa Cruz Island off Los Angeles

April ‘23: SoCal Bus Living and Daily Wander

Noooo! Bus Breakdown! It simply needs a pricey repair!

May ‘23: Louisiana with Daddy to think and pivot

[I was set to join the Peace Corps in Rwanda in June but recently pulled my application]

June ‘23 - August ‘23: Backpacking Summer Camp Counselor in the Trinity Alps Wilderness

August ‘23 - June ‘24: Outdoor Education Naturalist at Sierra Outdoor School in the Stanislaus National Forest. PURCHASED A NEW BUS FEBRUARY 2023

June ‘24 - August ‘24: Backpacking Summer Camp Counselor in the Trinity Alps Wilderness

August ‘24 - Visit home in Detroit, MI

UPCOMING

September - Trainer with Sankofa Roots at the Overnight Outdoor Preparedness and Survival Training for People of Color

October ‘24: WWOOF Farm Work-trade at a Black Woman owned and operated

Herbal Apothecary Farm

November ‘24 - February ‘25: Stay, learn, and practice at 3 Monasteries

across California for 1-2 months each

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Spoken Word poet

I express Spoken Word through Performance. The stage is where I started. The purest expression. You can hear my words as you see me act out my feelings. It gives you the ability to genuinely feel my poem in a way that can not be felt on the page.

botanical artist

I express myself through the Visual Arts. My primary medium is dried botanicals on acrylic on canvas. I use the beautiful array to what I find in nature in order to create my art. Nature is my deepest inspiration and I let it guide all that I do.

bus dwelling nomad

Shortly after I earned my Master of Social Work degree, I purchased an old rusty shuttle bus, and fixed it up in 1 month to be my home. I then shipped it to California, and I am now living out all of my wild and amazing dreams!

So this Spoken Word Album?

This Album is the realest.

It's that Organic Au Natural.

The good stuff you get from that one guy.

This Album is Sunday morning breakfast.

This Album is a brain massage.

A little classroom.

A little street.

A lotta real.

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Didn’t do much this year solo but here’s to the costumes of the past. Long may they reign. 🎃👻💀 2023 - Tumbleweed! When my name was Tumbleweed teaching Outdoor Ed 2022 - Dollar Tree Dinosaur Onesie 2021 - Hershey’s Kiss 2020 - A Stick figure with a lisp, a THICK FIGURE CUZ PERIODT 2019 - Duck Dynasty Dude? 2018 - Minion 2017 - SpongeBob 2016 - 80’s Aerobics 2015 - A baby, I was running the Baby Room Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday, I swear I say that all the time. I just LOVE it and it’s the one day a year I sort of talk to my Mom on some Coco vibes. #halloween #nomad

A time was had. So for a while now I’ve had a dream to be an herbalist, a feminine herbalist, helping with labor and yeasties and fertility and allat. One day when I’m a full blown Doula, I’d love to have a maternity apothecary right alongside it. Been learning herbalism online and started making tinctures and pilling dry herbs in my apartment. Soo when I came out here I knew I wanted to volunteer on farm and learn. I knew I wanted to find BLACKity Black farmers, hopefully herbalist and hopefully chicks. So boom. Here I am, on this farm, living in my pretty bus, with a solo Black female farmer who only grows herbs, learning all the things, hanging out. So far I’ve picked and processed soo many different herbs. I’ve build a chicken coop which ended up being a dog cage for her Great Dane while she farmed. Painted. Foraged. Planted. Harvested. Went to meetings about starting a local farm co-op. Went to a local documentary showing called Farming While Black about the state of Black farming in America. Went to a Native American Festival on Indigenous Peoples Day. And she’s given me plenty of herbs, tips, and tricks to help out my damaged lil belly. First farm stay down, hopefully a billion to go. One day I’ll have my private practice and nonprofit and dirty kids and a husband building me a greenhouse. And right now I feel like I’m getting ready for it. Loving life. Loving this. #nomad #solosavagevoyage #travelblogger #vanlife #buslife #wwoof #herbalism #pregnancy #california #greatdane

Unposted flashbackiana Working on getting everything out of the storage unit and into the bus 🚐 #phoenix #bus #storageunit #nomad #vanlife #buslife #conversion #blogger

Had an amazing time at the Sankofa Roots Outdoor Preparedness Training Weekend for folk of Color. Last time I went as a participant but this time I got to attend as a Trainer! Moving on up! It was a great experience and I made a few friends. Even got to sit down with the leader and get some insight on starting my own nonprofit. I taught everybody how to build and maintain a fire and how to build a bow drill for making fire with no starter. We did archery, knots, martial arts, danced around the fire, sang, carried firewood on our heads, built a shelter, went to the river, and soo much more. It was a dream. Sooo I was getting noided again about being followed eventually. Do I decided to give it a pause, and now I will resume posting now that I’m far away from whatever’s being posted, weeks late and posted out of order. Hopefully that will prevent potench crazies. #blog #vanlife #cali #schoolie #busconversion #nomad

First road trip! Headed to North Cali to the woods! After hanging out at my friends’ house for a couple weeks, I’m off! #adayinthelife #buslife #nomad #conversion #busconversion #schoolie #roadtrip #vanlife

First real day on the road! #adayinthelife #nomad #conversion #busconversion #cali #solotravel

Spent 2ish weeks at my friend’s place and now I’m back on the road. I’m soo grateful I had that time there. It was nice to have somewhere I could finish organizing the bus and organizing my thoughts. Applying to monasteries and WWOOF farms. Getting my website + store together. Getting my intenerary right. It was nice watching kid movies and playing games and thinking back to when my life was a mama and a sister like theirs. Moseying up the road a touch to camp with some Black folk ✊🏿 Super geeked

I made my way from Phoenix to San Diego 😎 Got Cali license plates 🚐 Replaced my 2nd battery Just an oil change left and I’m all set 👍🏿 After the 3rd session of Summer Camp, the last session is Family Camp where anyone can come, tiny kids, old folks and stuff. I got assigned to a campsite with a few cool families. I met a lady with a couple little daughters who and we chatted a bit. She said that if I ever needed a place to stay, I had her place and a spot for bus. Those are dangerous words so mean them if you say them. Well here I am, breathing up all her AC and eating up the organic snacks and enjoying this really cute doll house filled guest room. I never understood dolls. Been here about a week and it’s been great. 2nd family house I’ve stayed at from folk I met at camp, 3rd if you count my boss who has housed me a billion times. Just been hangin out and tinkering with the bus. Today I finally got everything away and in a spot. Now all that’s left is the details. So far so good. I try to mitigate disappointment by not being excited before things so I’m in this weird spot of trying not to get too geeked while exploding inside while trying to stay meh. Soo here’s my concept of a plan lol 2 farms 3 monasteries I’ve combed through and chosen the best ones for me 1-2 months each Mosey to the next place and make it road trip vibes So like take a week to arrive when if when its hrs away Run my store, Vagabond Wealth, in the bus (to be rereleased very shortly, please support!) Get an outdoor job in 6 months (sooner if I need to of course but hopefully I don’t). Things are looking up. ❤️ #nomad #vanlife #buslife #schoolie #busconversion #travelblog #vanlifeblog #camperconversion

Flashback to the actual day I bought my bus! I flew to LA to Sonora and bought it. I tried to drive it back but got snowed out and stayed in the bus that night. It was freeeezing cold and I couldnt lay out on the seat. I just chilled on TikTok + Insta until the sun cane up. This day was 1.5 years in the making after the devastating break down of my first bus. The first bus was a 1999 Ford E-450 and the new one is a 2015 E-350. 16 years newer and a touch smaller which helps with parking and gas. Issa new day! So grateful! #vanlife #buslife #nomad #schoolie #conversion #busconversion

While in Detroit at my Grandma’s, I found my original book of poetry from when I was about 12-14 yrs. They used to call me the Poemist in middle school and of course I have it spray painted on my skates (done at Northland Mall R.I.P.). I wrote a remix to Kanye’s Workout Plan about how much I hated my teacher. Ze Chef’s kiss. Super vast array of topics. I’m really impressed that this is what I did unprompted for fun so young and then never gave it up. Also about 12-14 was when I was starting to fall out of Christianity. But I also explored all the other beliefs I could one by one. I went to Catholic Mass which connected dots for how we did things. Started rocking with the Nation of Islam, even went to the Women’s classes on Saturdays and learned how to be pleasing to men (YAWN!! lol) all respect to them tho. Joined a Universal Unitarianist Church in college and went weekly, they study everything everything. Hare Krishna. Found Buddhism. For quite a while, I used to get up early on Sundays and go to the Buddhist Temple in Detroit, then throw on a dress and shoot to church with my fam. Over time, I let the Temple became my main place of practice. I earned my Buddhist name there. And after my Mom passed, I lived there for 2.5 year under a strict mediation regimen 6 days a week and a billion over rules. But it was in Detroit, we all worked, and I partied and dated and stuff. It was cool and strange, but anywho, here’s my Bible journal from when I was reading the Bible. Zoom in and read from the mind of lil meee. #vanlife #buslife #detroit #nomad #poetry