Stealth Pilot wrote:

if you cant fly with the windsock horizontal you'd better not try
flying crosscountry because one day you will find it horizontal and at
the end of a long flight you might not have enough fuel to go anywhere
else.

Well stated. We had a case here where someone (a fairly new pilot) and
his wife flew on a multi-day XC and ended up breaking the landing
gear (fixed gear) on his plane when trying to land in a windy cross
wind at an airport far from home. Fortunately no injuries, but the
landing should have been otherwise routine.