Assuming you get an electronic version of your annual reports, you will need to contact your broker’s Corporate Actions Team (i.e. for etrade the number is 800-387-2331). If you received a hard copy of the annual report, you can tear out the perforated proxy card (check attend the meeting) and mail it in.

2. The Action Team will give you a 12-digit control # and tell you to go to proxyvote.com and enter the control #.

3. After entering the number at proxyvote.com, you will check the box at the bottom of the form requesting the desire to attend the annual meeting.

4. You will receive a confirmation email for the meeting.

If you didn’t receive your shareholder credentials in the mail in the past few weeks, you should call Berkshire Hathaway headquarters directly and request some. Their phone number is (402) 346-1400

Driving the complete route takes about 37 hours, which you can spread out over four or five days, or longer, depending on how many stops you’d like to make and how in-depth you’d like your trip to be. A good overview map of Route 66 is available at theroadwanderer.net

In Lebanon, Missouri, check out Munger Moss Motel, which offers Route 66 theme rooms and won the 2006 Route 66 Preservation Foundation Business of the Year Award. Other unique lodgings include the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona, where you can stay in a concrete replica of an American Indian wigwam; and El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, New Mexico, which served as a temporary home for many Western movie stars, including John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Humphrey Bogart.

historic66.com, offers turn-by-turn descriptions of the route and its restaurants, shops, museums and recreation opportunities. Well-known attractions include the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum in Clinton and Mojave National Preserve in Nipton, California.

Approximately 40,000 people attended Berkshire's general meeting in 2015. In fact, a report on that year's meeting published by Business Insider described the line to be "at least a few thousand deep" before it was 5 a.m. With crowds like this, it is critical to plan your trip to Omaha many months in advance. When you consider the cost of lodging for the three days of events, airfare and other miscellaneous expenses, attending the meeting can be quite an expensive endeavor.

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It's my opinion the best way to play the Alibaba "card" is with a well-known Japanese company that owns nearly 70% of Sprint (S_) . I'm referring to SoftBank (SFTBY_) which owns and controls 37% of Alibaba. SoftBank's Chairman Jack Ma and other company founders own an additional 10%.

SoftBank makes its profits through four divisions: Mobile Communications, Broadband Infrastructure, Fixed-line Telecommunications, and Internet Culture. It's in the Internet Culture segment that it operates the Yahoo! Japan portal, which includes Yahoo! Auction and Yahoo! News. It also engages in the sale of Internet advertising, operates e-commerce sites such as Yafuoku! and Yahoo! Shopping and provides membership services to its customers.

So when you buy shares of SoftBank you own a large piece of Sprint, and significant chunks of Alibaba and Yahoo!. You also own SoftBank's robust mobile communications business where it sells mobile phone handsets, such as Apple (AAPL_) iPhones, iPads, and SoftBank smartphones.