I am beginning the painful process of ordering years of images in Lightroom. My objective is to sort my images primarily for use in presentations, for training and printing. I am not a professional photographer so I do not need to publish them except occasionally to Smugmug. 90% of my work is overseas and I travel a lot for work. I have thousands of images which I am culling but will still have a large library.
Currently I house all of my images on a desktop PC with appropriate backups. Most of the time when traveling I copy all the images I shoot to my laptop and then to my desktop when I get back.
What I would like to do is organize and keyword all my images in Lightroom on my desktop then copy everything (LIghtroom and images) to a portable hard drive which I could then connect to my laptop, open in Lightroom and still have all the metadata present. Is that possible?