Gallagher's Travels: About Mary Gallagher

ABOUT ME

Writing biographical information for me, is an exercise akin to composing my obituary. What do I want to be remembered for? How do we distill a lifetime of big and small experiences into a few paragraphs? Should one tell the good, the bad and the ugly? Do you care if I stole flowers from the neighbors garden when I was six?

Always seeking that brief moment of fame - leave your headlights on, I’ll put on a show, my first brush was in baby-sitting. As a young teen in our blue collar South Minneapolis, Minnesota neighborhood, once or twice, I sat for the children of Charles Schultz (Peanuts creator). Obviously this was B.H.B.S. - before his big success.

During my early twenties, I worked for RCA Victor in Hollywood writing pay checks for Elvis Presley and all the other RCA recording artists. They laughed me out of an interview at the Pink Pussycat. Impressed yet?

In the 70’s I was elected to office in suburban Minneapolis. This was early enough in women’s political history to make national news. Later a controversy over nude dancers at a local nightspot threw me back into the national media spotlight.

After many years in the real estate and contracting business, I gave into wanderlust leaving Minnesota for Europe and a few years of constant travel. I’ve lived - read changed suitcases - in Arlington, Virginia for the last 18 years.

Twelve years ago a real estate client, that just happened to be an international cable television company, encouraged me to get involved in television. That launched a whole new life. I’ve played bit parts in bad movies, major parts in low budget training films, photographed for many print publications, hosted local television, produced programs for cable broadcast in several states and been the guest travel expert on radio and television. Movie star, Don Johnson, seeing me in the lobby of a famous hotel seemed to recall that we were old friends! Old Hollywood types always seem to recognize each other.

Somewhere along this route, it dawned on me that if one spends all their spare time traveling, reading about travel, dreaming about travel and saving money to travel, perhaps, I should produce a travel show. “Gallagher’s Travels” ran for several years. Now I write for newspapers, magazines and edit and write for my own web site plus appear on Washington DC’s CBS affiliate WUSATV news as the travel expert, live radio reports for Travel World Radio and our latest radio venture Gallagher’s Travel Journal.... and just keep traveling.

My objective, with Gallagher's Travels on the web and anywhere else, is to help you get more out of your journeys by relating my extensive travel experience, for the last and next twenty plus years, and that of our guest journalists. We personally visit every site written about on these pages.

Like any experience, the more places I see, the more I realize how much there is left to experience.

Mary Gallagher
3419-B South Stafford St.
Arlington, VA 22206-1905
703 578 4475 voice; 703 578 1328 fax
E mail: Mary@Gallagherstravels.com

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