500and2, has some good advice, talk to "local knowledge",on CAVU days get out your vfr charts and
look at different routes home. Get to know your terrain from all kinds of Alts.
stuff looks way different from 1500 ovc or 005ovc

Keep 3 plans on returning out of wx areas,because when you need too, 2 of em will crap the bed.

A seasoned guy once told me when the wx is windy and crappy "you only need two shots at getting in.
first one- you might not have been totally in the a/c,
second try, if it didn"t happen, go... the third one you probably gonna bend something..

good luck
ROFZU