makeshift standing desk for working remotely

My employer allows working from anywhere in the world for up to three months a year, and I do take advantage of this benefit. Sometimes I get to be away from home for as little as one week and up to one month. I live in Seattle and it gets pretty gray during the winter.

As I'm getting older, my back starts hurting if I work out of bed. Unfortunately, the places we visit don't have proper standing desks as they're temporary Airbnb's or the like. After a painful experience of not having a proper desk, I started researching what it'd take to setup a makeshift standing desk.

I have a tripod: the Peak Design Travel Tripod. Given that, the question was how to mount a laptop on top of it. And, I found the Manfrotto TetherGear Laptop Deck. Alternatively, there's one made by Leofoto, the Leofoto LCH-3S Laptop Tray (but I had to wait six months for the short version to arrive as it was temporarily out of stock,) but that's the one I use as it's much cheaper than the Manfrotto one.

All in all, the combination of the travel tripod and the laptop tray is magical. Both use the Arca-type (similarly called Arca-Swiss) quick release mounting system, thus it's super easy to connect and disconnect them with one hand. I used the setup last week and, yeah, no more back pain--woohoo!