The plan for this day was to spend it exploring the Finger Lakes. I wanted to at least touch down on each of them. Given the weather I went through the day before to get here, I had a feeling that plan wasn't going to materialize. My feeling was right. I waited about an hour at the FBO for the weather to clear up. It did get better, but the forecast was showing another set of storms coming in, so I used that opening to get up in the air and continue my streak of 28 days of flying in a row.
I hadn't really thought about flying every single day as any kind of a 'streak'. It was just something that I was going to do as part of the trip. But, as I got further along it became something I wanted to keep going - although not at the expense of doing something unsafe, but more on that later.
Since I did get up and out for a short flight, I got to see some of Cayuga Lake and get a lay of the land. It made me wish I'd be able to explore the area more, but I had a commitment to do an event at the MAPS Air Museum in Akron/Canton, so I wasn't able to stick around an extra day, but since I didn't have to be in Akron early, I decided to spend some time the next morning on the lake. The weather forecast was looking much better (of course) so I was confident I'd be able to get a few water landings in.
The first additional pic here is part of the spreadsheet I used to initially plan each leg of the trip and also kept it updated as I went. Dates were calculated automatically based on a few critical stops (highlighted in purple]. This way I was able to plug in the number of days I planned to spend at each location and still hit my target dates. There was a LOT more information in there, but this was the key piece for keeping my timings straight. It would end up being even more critical in a couple weeks.
Second pic is the bar of soap in my hotel. I think the idea was to reduce waste, but the resulting shape was...interesting. Use cases are left to the reader's imagination.