Hiking to business success: the journey of Andrea Mulla ’82. In
1988, after a career in teaching, Andrea Ellison Mulla and a friend
started Distant Journeys to organize hiking expeditions to Europe,
particularly the Alps. She serves as a general partner
and co-owner of the company.
“We offer easy hotel-based trips, more demanding hut-to-hut
trips and self-guided
trips. All offer excellent ways to explore some beautiful areas
by walking, hiking and trekking,” says the Distant Journeys
Web site (www.distantjourneys.com). Hiking
and walking areas include: Iceland, Norway,
several regions in France, Switzerland, Italy and England. “Our
overseas trips are perfect for active singles or couples who enjoy
adventure travel,” says Andrea.
Why take on such an entrepreneurial venture? “ Is
it something about a group of strangers that converge in a far, or
not so far-off place, an unfamiliar place travel together; share
the experience of new vistas, different foods, fine wines and sore
muscles; and depart friends that makes us go out again and again?
Definitely,” Andrea says.
Andrea earned a BA in history in 1982 She was inducted
into the St. Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame for her outstanding
performance in field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse; she and her mother
Helen “Aitchie” Ellison’45 are the first
mother-daughter team in the Hall of Fame.
Amazing
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