Adventure Travel Biography
After her Peace Corps experience, Susan worked as a biologist for a pharmaceutical company in Chicago and was accepted into a doctoral program in Public Health at the University of Illinois Medical Center. While pursuing her doctorate, Susan began leading weekend cross-country skiing, canoeing, and hiking trips for fellow female students at the University. Experiencing the laughter, friendship, and excitement of these weekend trips, Susan began to think about creating her own company specializing in women’s adventure travel.
In 1982, divorced and with her M.P.H. and M.S.P.H. in Public Heath, Susan made the difficult decision to drop out of her doctoral program and launch her own adventure travel company. She was 35 years old living in a 3rd-story walk-up Victorian loft in Evanston, Illinois. When she approached several bankers with her idea for a women’s adventure travel company, they laughed and told her that it was too risky a proposal to grant her any money to start her business. Refusing to be put off by this apparent setback, and holding firm to the credo “if you want something badly enough, you will find a way to do it,” Susan decided to take her life savings of $25,000 and start her new company. From the back of her new Datsun pick-up truck, she began guiding rugged adventure travel trips, a field dominated almost exclusively by men.
After her Peace Corps experience, Susan worked as a biologist for a pharmaceutical company in Chicago and was accepted into a doctoral program in Public Health at the University of Illinois Medical Center. While pursuing her doctorate, Susan began leading weekend cross-country skiing, canoeing, and hiking trips for fellow female students at the University. Experiencing the laughter, friendship, and excitement of these weekend trips, Susan began to think about creating her own company specializing in women’s adventure travel.
In 1982, divorced and with her M.P.H. and M.S.P.H. in Public Heath, Susan made the difficult decision to drop out of her doctoral program and launch her own adventure travel company. She was 35 years old living in a 3rd-story walk-up Victorian loft in Evanston, Illinois. When she approached several bankers with her idea for a women’s adventure travel company, they laughed and told her that it was too risky a proposal to grant her any money to start her business. Refusing to be put off by this apparent setback, and holding firm to the credo “if you want something badly enough, you will find a way to do it,” Susan decided to take her life savings of $25,000 and start her new company. From the back of her new Datsun pick-up truck, she began guiding rugged adventure travel trips, a field dominated almost exclusively by men.
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