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Travels are global, like my 2003 trip to Chiba, Japan (a Wisconsin
sister-state) as one of nine Women of Wings goodwill delegates. I also
co-led a Midwest Travel Writers Association trip to South Korea in 2006. That said, I’m easily amused close to home, too – be it at the
Greenbush Firemen’s Picnic or the Birchwood Bluegill Festival. I grew up on a dairy farm and rarely left Wisconsin before entering
college. I paid my way through college by waitressing at the Schwartz Hotel
(now Victorian Village Resort) in Elkhart Lake. Circulation of my weekly and syndicated travel column exceeds 250,000. I’ve also been a “Traveling Shepherd” columnist for Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express and write for other publications (including Global Traveler, AAA Living, Rand McNally, Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides, Chicago Tribune and Wisconsin Trails). “Sidetracked in Wisconsin” was my first book, and now we’re ready to introduce “Hungry for Wisconsin,” a book about food. I am a member of the Midwest Travel Writers Association and the group’s web editor. I am a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and co-chair of membership and professional development in the Central States Chapter. At home in Madison, I am a proud member of First Unitarian Society and a hospice volunteer, a lover of animals and nature. I favor independently owned restaurants when at home or away, and encourage you to do the same, to stymie homogenization in this world. |
Mary Bergin
Travel Writing and Photography
As
a teen, I couldn't wait to leave Wisconsin. Now I wouldn't think of living
anyplace else, but that doesn't mean I stay home much.