Preparing my vacation laptop

We're about to go on vacation. And I have decided not to take my newish Macbook Air M4. Just on the off-chance something might happen to my favorite piece of technology. And also: we'll be travelling a lot and staying in lots of different places and I do not want to use brain CPU cycles every day thinking about whether I should take my laptop with me or put it in the hotelsafe or leave it in the room etc. So, the M4 is not coming. But I do need a laptop. I mean, who goes on vacation without a laptop?! I am not a caveman. And also: I am not going to be blogging from my phone. I thought about pulling out the Chromebook again. Which makes sense: we travelled the US a few years ago, with only a Chromebook. Yes, it worked, but it was suboptimal. Specifically because I need things like PGP and a VPN for work. Work?! Ah, yes, I see what you are thinking, but I am one of those people that likes to check in every now and then... Sorry. My wife has a Macbook Air M1. Of course, the exact same…