Taking My Office To Disney

I will be in the Disney area for five weeks. I am renting a house and converting one of the bedrooms into an office. I will work from the office  while the rest of the family enjoy Disney, or the house's pool, or the area. After work and during weekends, I'll join them. This gives me the best simulated experience for what it would be like to live at Disney: needing to work all day, deal with the garbage, the pool guy, the exterminator, pay bills, grocery shop, make dinner, etc.

To make that happen, I need to box up my home office (well... most of my home office) and take it with me. I'll leave behind several monitors and the printer, but take everything else. I even take a folding table that I purchased specifically for working in Florida.

Taking my home office requires careful packing to make sure nothing gets damaged during the trip. I have to tare down my setup which includes disassembling the computer monitors. I will have to reassemble everything when I arrive.

Experience has told me to not trust the Villa wireless. The wireless signals are often too weak by the time they get into the front bedroom that I use. Therefore, I take very long ethernet cords that I can run from the home office to the wireless access point and plug in, providing a wired connection.

If the house internet proves to be a problem, I have a backup: my cell phone can be used as a hotspot. The performance of a cell phone based hotspot is horrible in comparison to cable broadband, but in a pinch - it keeps me working.

I have had some great experiences working from Disney. I expect the same to be true for this trip as well.