Good Point!
Many airports aren't served with MSAs, or approaches, ect...so the first 'safe' altitude is an airway. Personaly, I have literaly gone to VFR charts for TOPO info, and ofcourse coming in, I get a lay of the land to figure out which way I will go when departing later on, at night, and in bad weather. Needless to say, domestic US, uncontrolled airspace, in the mountains...all that is neeto, but I still climb like hell...once on radar, radio contact...definately feels better.