From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoutward journey/voyage etcoutward journey/voyage etcOUT/OUTSIDEa journey in which you are travelling away from home → outward
Examples from the Corpus
outward journey/voyage etc• According to Ziad, Jamal had no problem at Netzarim junction on his outward journey.• It does not retrace the zig-zags of its outward journey.• She took no pleasure from the countryside as on the outward journey.• Somehow it has measured and remembered the distance it ran on each stage of its outward journey.• Alternatively, for the outward journey only, cancellation coverage up to the holiday invoice cost. 8.• Their outward journey was comparatively easy.• That moon flight as an outward journey was outward into ourselves.• The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain. 