In other words, you're trying to figure out how to navigate in MS Flight
Simulator...

VOR triangulation is learned and practiced during your initial PPL
training... Some people use it afterwards, some rely on GPS or LORAN... Once
you learn it, it's simple enough that you're not likely to forget it, so
some (perhaps many) pilots don't practice it anymore...

VFR flights are traditionally flown straight to destination using dead
reckoning and pilotage (i.e. point it in the right direction and look for
landmarks along the way)... IFR flights have tranditionally been flown VOR
to VOR... These days with IFR certified GPSs, things have probably
changed...

Flying cross country might be a direct flight if there are no airspaces that
you need to avoid...

Oh well, so much for the nickel tour...