Hey OP great thread! Awesome to see how others are doing it!

Made the switch from Aperture to Lr a couple years ago, really like it (except for this creative cloud non-sense, might have to switch back =)

Very similar workflow here, I shoot in just RAW and once I get home back everything up to my backup drive (clean drag and drop from the SD Card).

I import to Lr and then, I usually only pick just one, two, or max three pictures (yes thats right out of 1000+) that I think represent the trip well (I'm a doc and travel for international medical relief work, expeditions, etc. so I usually like having one or two pics that I can immediately give to my organization for them to publicize, many times this will be done in the field and the back up will be to my 500gb SSD Lacie rugged). Basically its just an ultra quick sort and I usually have a pretty good idea going in what those pictures are. This allows me to start working on them immediately, and also honestly just procrastination really of the very boring task of flagging and tagging w/ keywords the rest of the set. (I've never quite been able to efficiently use the star rating system, i always look back and inevitably the phrase: "I rated THAT a 3 star???!!!" will cross my lips). I do end up going through all of them and tagging with keywords (HDR, Landscape, Culture, etc. ).

For post-pro I use NIK Software Suite of plugins and couldn't be happier with the results. Specifically HDR Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, and Vivaza. Its easy and quick (read: I'm very lazy), literally 3 mins, to go from something like the top image to the bottom image. Without having to bother with lackluster Lr presets or adjustments and/or the time suck that is Ps. It works for me anyway, just gotta be careful sometimes of crossing that "HDR Look" line.