I was faced with that too, so I set up an Umbrel with Formicaio and Tailscale. Took me some figuring out, but I’ve set up two different laptops wired to my home router, each with Umbrel install. Formiciao for running nodes (easy as cake!) and Talescale to have a tunnel between each instance and my on-the-go macbook and phone.
I’m on the road but can access each individually, set up and manage nodes, completely secure from anywhere, from either of my devices. Pretty cool.
If you haven’t seen it, check out @bochaco’s forum post here: Formicaio
Might be too late for you this time, but it’s worth the figure-out.
I’m planning to upgrade to a more suitable setup with more storage, cpu and ram, but this will get things started without having to be home.