the road home; one's way home
Refers to the route or journey back to one's home. Often used in poetic or slightly literary contexts, but also common in everyday speech.
I hurried along the road home at dusk.
He set off for home.
Compound of 家 (いえ, 'house, home') and 路 (じ, 'road, path'). The reading じ for 路 is a common rendaku form of ち.