Susan Alcorn and her husband started from Roncesvalles, a small village in the Pyraness, traveled through the wine growing regions of Navarre and Rioja, hike across the flat, stark and hot meseta described as "nine month of winter and three month of Hell." cross over the Cantabrian mountain range; and enter the verdant, oft-rainy ridges and valleys of Galicia, arriving at the cathedral in Compostela de Santiago.