Gloria Bohan is where I would like to be when I reach age 70. <\/p>\n
She is the founder and president of a 524-employee travel agency based in Fairfax City, Omega World Travel, which she built with her late husband, Dan. <\/p>\n
(Dayna Smith\/For The Washington Post) - Bohan built Omega from scratch, starting with a small office in Fredericksburg. It now bills more than $1 billion in travel and has offices from London to its headquarters in Fairfax. <\/p>\n
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Im writing about her because I just passed my 57th birthday, and as I think about a path forward, I was energized by Bohan, her engagement with her surroundings, pride in the company she created and her continued appetite for work. <\/p>\n
Bohan sat next to me last week at the Washington Nationals game (my seats), poking her iPhone as she answered e-mails between reminiscences about her childhood in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where she developed a romantic fascination with the cruise ships steaming through New York Harbor. <\/p>\n
Omega World Travel which she built through scrappy persistence is nicely profitable, allowing her a comfortable life in leafy McLean and a place in New Yorks Hamptons. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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