Kittens & bears don't mix well :(

Alaska is amazing in the summer. I say go for it. But you might need to leave the cats with your Mom.

Kurt sounds kinda like what Carols Castaneda calls a Petty Tyrant...evidently there are plenty of them around, and Carlos suggests looking upon them as good things - since they give us an opportunity to 'practice' staying calm an collected and equanamous in the face of pure idiocy. They really require that you call upon your internal resources to formulate albiet aggravating, responses. He suggests visualizing them as if they were knats nippng our ankles. That's about where they belong in our consciousness...though it certainly is a real challenage having to have one as a boss... Anyway,according to CC, very character building, and I suppose you have to give him some credit for getting these interesting gigs set up.
First things first,though, and that would be the kitties, and if they can go with. If so, and if you decide to go, these two are going to set the guiness record for being the most traveling pair of cats on the planet.... bon voyage!