One of the most fun things about flying is taking a cross country trip to somewhere unfamiliar. This is a night trip we took to Wendover in a 172. Flying directly west right at sunset is not usually a good idea, but we took some comfort in being with flight following there and back. Flying around an international airport is also fun. It makes you want to have more than just your normal charts (like a Terminal Area Chart (TAC) and approach procedures), but if you simply tell them that you are unfamiliar, they can ‘suggest a heading’. Different from an instrument flight plan where they assign a heading, their suggestions are sort of like a progressive taxi for the air. If you don’t fly these transitions very often, I would prefer both. If you don’t know the details of the charts (or haven’t read them before they’re assigned), then ‘unfamiliar’ would be the safest bet, even if they are right there in front of you.