Planes, Trains, and... U-Hauls?
One of my favorite holiday movies is “Planes, Trains, & Automobiles”—but who thought so many would have to live it? The movie I’m referring to is that 1987 John Hughes classic starring Steve Martin and John Candy as a pair of travelers (Martin an advertising exec, Candy a travelling shower curtain ring salesman—and you think you have a hard job) trying to get home for Thanksgiving. There are any number of misadventures along the way—involving the aforementioned means of transportation on the trip from New York to Chicago… via Wichita and St. Louis. Well, a couple of weeks back several hundred advisors found themselves reliving that experience as a series of unrelated events emerged to thwart their scheduled travel to the NAPA 401(k) Summit in Tampa. It started early the day before the event with a strike by Alaska Airlines pilots, by mid-morning Southwest Airlines was experiencing ““intermittent performance issues f...