All of this is well written, but seems like familiar territory.

At the same time he moves into less familiar territory.

Bad news in hospitals is familiar territory where I come from.

With this new found authority he returned south to more familiar territory.

His head began to feel like familiar territory again, but he was suddenly more frightened than ever.

This is, in other words, both formidable and familiar territory.

But when it comes to the small ones, you're in familiar territory.

That put me right in familiar territory, so I grinned at him.

It was a relief to both of them to return to this familiar territory.

If it is to familiar territory, then we may rest easy.