Well I'm a little less than local, but I chose to respond here rather than CI anyway. I can somewhat relate to the situation as my girlfriend's dad is going over there in about two weeks (August 8th, IIRC) for relatively the same thing. One year open contract.
She's freaking out of course, generalising that Kuwait is in the Middle East, so of course it must be bad. It really isn't. They're very modern over there and actually they make a lot of damn good money and have some expensive stuff too.
But back on point. Looks like you'll be making a ton on top of another ton of money. Hopefully this isn't the only thing swinging your decision. There's a whole different culture and all over there. Being in Texas, I assume you're already used to obscene temperatures, but it still gets like that almost all year around over there.
Will you be selling the Contour before you take off? If you do, you might have a potential buyer if we can arrange to split shipping and you accept credit cards!
Aw hell Ray! Yes, we'll all miss you.
-SAV
