Suggestions on Workflow w/ External HD

I'm trying to find the best way to plan my workflow while I'm on the road. While I'm away from home, I will be uploading and editing photos to my laptop in LR and then when I'm home, I would like to store the files on my external harddrive, so that I don't eat up so much space on my computer. Would I need to make two libraries for this? One for temporarily holding the images, and then a main one for everything on my external harddrive? How do I go about copying the metadate or edits that I make to each photo to my external drive? Thanks, very much!

Your Lightroom Catalog does exactly the same things regardless where the image file is actually stored. Provided the image remains accessible, and in the same place where it was last seen, LR does not mind or care whether that is internal or external. Also Lightroom does not mind where the Catalog itself is stored - it will still work equally well.
It's a good idea to first select some fixed permanent drive reference for an external drive used for this kind of job, rather than allowing the drive reference to just be assigned accidentally ad-hoc each time. You don't want this to vary, IOW.
So you might have a Catalog on drive C (internal), which refers to some images on drive C (internal), and subsequently further images on drive J (external) too. If you move this Catalog to drive J, it will still operate fine and will still refer successfully to all the same images on both drives C and J.
If you then move the remaining images that are on drive C, into J in a way that LR keeps track of - (either by doing this inside LR's Folders panel, or else by moving them bodily outside LR and then re-addressing LR to tell it where the formerly drive C images have now gone) - then that is fine too.
If you now take drive J and plug it into your laptop, the same Catalog can now be used from there also. When opened, LR will be looking for a lot of image files which it knows ought to be on drive J. If this external drive appears to your laptop accidentally as drive E, then LR will fail to see a working location for these images. But if this external drive appears as drive J just as it did on the other computer, then everything is happy .
You may not want to work on your entire image library when travelling. Perhaps you don't want to carry your precious external drive on the road, but intend to work only off the laptop. In this case, you can create an entirely separate new Catalog in LR on the laptop just for this trip. You can import your images into some location inside the laptop's hard disk and edit them normally. When you return, you can connect the external drive to your laptop (as drive J). Then you can use the copy of LR on the laptop to move the whole lot of images from the laptop's drive C, into drive J. Then close LR and temporarily copy your laptop "this trip" Catalog onto drive J somewhere also.
Then connect drive J to the main computer, and start your main LR catalog. In File, select "Import from another Catalog" and find your "this trip" catalog where you have copied it. The contents - all the information about the images imported to LR during the trip, as well as all the keywording / editing / etc you have done, will be merged into the main catalog. The addressing of the images concerned will remain equally valid - since it is a matter of the images being consistently seen "on drive J".
Then - once it is all rolled up into your main working setup - the separate "this trip" catalogs on the laptop and on drive J can be removed.
Don't forget to urgently put in place a backup routine for drive J (or whatever it is) - in the same way that you would do for a computer. Often we think of an external drive as a suitable backup medium, but in this case this is your primary data and the computer is not storing any other copy. So the external drive needs itself to be replicated on a regular basis, IMO into at least two separately-stored and, ideally, different forms. Options include a different external drive or NAS, cloud storage, or another computer's internal drive somewhere.

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