The most neglected part of remote-work travel is the return home.

Before the trip, everyone gets serious. You check passports, Wi-Fi, chargers, roaming, eSIMs, calendar conflicts, hotel desks, and whether the room has a place where a laptop can live without wrecking your neck. During the trip, you debug the …

Working remotely from Mexico is usually not a heroic technical achievement. For many U.S.-based software engineers, the time zones are manageable, flights are reasonable, and the basic travel path is familiar.

That is exactly why it is easy to under-prepare.

The failure mode is not usually "I cannot …