• View from Puerto Pirata Beach Restaurant
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica Caribbean-Day 2: Manzanillo, Punta Uva and Puerto Viejo

    Gandoca Manzanillo National Refuge After snorkeling, we drove the remaining couple of miles to Manzanillo, which is as far south as you can drive on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Manzanillo is a tiny fishing village of about 2 blocks in size, blink and you'll miss it! (Truthfully you can't, as it's the end of the road). Here we parked our car and headed for the entrance to Refugio Nacional Gandoca-Manzanillo.

  • CPA Tax Tips
    FIRE and Small Business,  Personal Finance

    Essential Small Business Tax Tips

    Congratulations bloggers and side hustlers, you have your first year of blogging or business operations under your belt. And now the worst part is facing you squarely: Income taxes, what do you have to do? No worries, while not blogging, I'm a licensed CPA so taxes are MY forte, and this post is for you! I'm going to answer the questions I hear most frequently in my practice and provide small business tax tips that should make this task just a little easier and I also will dispel some fallacies that I've seen circulating around the internet.