Well said
Have you played around with google maps and yahoo maps? They now let you drag the 'default' path onto other areas thus creating new routes? May be useful in finding ways-around where you "get to land" ?
That is a good place to start to find routes, but is no substitute for local specific knowledge. A route may look good, but in fact be blocked.
A trivial example. My home street, on the maps, shows it connects with another street, producing a quick short cut. Its on the county maps as a county road. Only the county got it wrong, and about 300 yards of that road is private, and the farmer who owns it didn't like the traffic across his land, so he dropped a massive tree across the road, totally blocking it. People yelled. Farmer's response: my land, my road my tree.
My point is, without such up close local knowledge, what looks good on paper or even a satellite photo, may not work.
Someone once said "the map is not the territory." Something to keep in mind.
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