PAUL McHUGH, is the outdoors feature writer for the “San 

Francisco Chronicle,” and the editor of “Wild Places: 20 Journeys 

into the American Outdoors” (Foghorn Press, 1996), a book about 

North American journeys. Paul is also the author of “The Search 

for Goodbye-to-Rains” (Daedalus Books, 1980). His love of the 

outdoors originally was developed in the flatlands of the 

Everglades and the Florida Keys. Ski mountaineering, as well as 

sea kayaking (he won a surf kayak world championship with Team 

USA in 1988), are among his passions. Paul will talk about his recent 

coastal kayak adventure and writing from the road.