Gloria Bohan is where I would like to be when I reach age 70.

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.

(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.

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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.

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.

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.

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