We often take the history provided from midrashim for granted when filling in the gaps left open by the Torah. Of course, we know the Torah is not a history book and the fact that it doesn't give more details about something isn't a valid question in and of itself. Rather, I would ask why did the Hashem decide that it was enough to start the story of Avraham well into his life, when Hashem told him to leave home. The wasn't even the first religious experience that Avraham had; the Rambam's account of Avraham's realization of the existence of Hashem teaches a fundamental lesson in emunah and would surely be worthy of being in the Torah for all to read. The only thing said about him before this is his lineage, whom he married, and that Lot was his nephew. Why is "לך לך" the divide between the relevant story and the apparently irrelevant back-story?
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