Uwharrie,

I am very excited you are headed to Omaha after 20 years. I attended last year and had a blast all weekend. The whole weekend exceeded all expectations. I met a ton of folks-some pretty well known and many other just normal birds of the same feather.

Sight seeing involved Kiewit Plaza building (now black/ undergoing renovation), WEB's old houses (childhood, rental & current), visited Gorat's and travelled to buy my Mrs. a few items at Borsheim's Sunday afternoon (20% off).

I arrived in CHI line around 5am which ended up being fine and allowed plenty of fun chat time with other owners and allowed similar good seating on the side of CHI as Breck mentioned and was 125' or so away from the dynamic duo. I rec. you Buy box lunch tickets at CHI in the am so you can easily pick it up within CHI concourse and not miss any of the meeting.

I attended a 2 hour Gabelli conference at the baseball park Friday around noon (registered on line thru Gabelli), a Markel dinner Friday evening (Marriott), Tilson dinner/ presentation Saturday night (Hilton) and a Markel brunch on Sunday (Marriott). You can sign up for the free Markel events thru their website and get an email confirmation. Btw, 801 Chophouse was within walking distance, modern with excellent menu/steaks. I hear WEB has taken special visitors there on occasion.

I really enjoyed hanging out in the Hilton right across the street where you run into a lot of 'VIPs' There were a couple informal happy hour meetups and I chatted with Tobias Carlisle and colleagues right after the Sat. meeting.

I arrived Thursday and left Monday and plan on doing the same this year to soak it all in. Uber worked out well for my needs.

Hope this helps but please report back your thoughts/ itinerary and feedback upon return. These occasions of seeing WEB & CTM and all those who made the pilgrimage are really special. Speaking with a lot of very long term shareholders and hearing about the 'old days' was very cool and enlightening as well. Heard many fun stories from locals about running into Warren (& his family) like it's not a big deal to local folks. Enjoy! You all will have a grand time!