Best Way To Work on the road - Laptop w/External Drive

Hello. I would like to get some advice/experience on the best workflow to use in the following situation. I currently have this as my office/home setup. A laptop and and external drive. I run LR from the laptop HD, the catalog is on the laptop HD but ALL my images/xmp files reside on the external drive.
So, when traveling I use my laptop and another external drive -- call it the Portable Drive. After a day of shooting, I import my images into LR and the destination is the Portable Drive. I use the same import folder naming standards as I do when in the office/home.
When I am back in the office/home I would then like to move the images/xmp files and all metadata/library/develop module work from the portable drive to the external drive in the office.
I hope this makes sense. Any thoughts? Ideas? Should I create a new catalog and then export that catalog and import it into the "home" catalog?

I am new to LR2, but have stumbled on a solution that works for me. This solution requires that you have the laptop and home computer on the same network and you have write access from the laptop to some directory on the home computer. From the laptop, open LR and point to the folder on the laptop containing the photos you want to copy to the home computer. I then right-click on the folder and select Export this Folder as a Catalog. With the export dialog choose a location on the home computer where you want the catalog to reside and enter a name. Once the files are copied, you need to open LR on the home computer and use the Import button on the bottom of the Library panel to point to the newly created catalog (*.lrcat) file. You then have the option of adding the photos without moving them or copying them to a new location and importing from there. LR2 also checks for duplicate file names before importing. Hope this works for you. Cheers... Brian

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