Dumitriu, Tetali and Winkler have described a "whirling tours"
algorithm that computes the expected time for random walk on a
tree to get from a designated starting vertex to a designated
target vertex (and that incidentally always gives a whole number).
I'll explain why their algorithm works by situating it in the
context of the Eulerian walkers model (aka rotor-router walk)
and the abelian sandpile model (aka chip-firing).
The slides are available at
http://jamespropp.org/tour0.pdf.