Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 11; Flight Crew Total 1043; Flight Crew Type 209
Communication Breakdown; Physiological - Other; Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Overrode Automation; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors
Taxi for departure; instructed to taxi from the FBO ramp to runway via [Taxiway] 1 cross Runway XX; I missed the right turn onto [Taxiway] 1 and ended up on the X/XX intersection via [Taxiway 2]. I made a right turn onto XX around the same time that ground asked if I needed assistance. I verified with ground that a left turn would get me onto [Taxiway] 1.This area is noted as HotSpot on the airport diagram. I had noted the hot spot earlier when reviewing the diagram and was familiar with the airport. Possible contributing factors are a lack of recent operations at airports other than my home base (approximately four months of no cross-country operations involving landings) due to COVID and possible distraction due to having just dealt with an apparently flooded engine. I was probably also expecting Runway XX instead of X; winds were light and variable; and tower was apparently switching runways with some frequency.
Private pilot reported a taxiway incursion and cited lack of flying and being distracted dealing with a flooded engine as contributing factors.