Take catalog from Mac on the road with PC?

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My catalog and images normally live on my Mac.
I would like to take all my photos and catalog with me on the road, but on my Windows 10 laptop:
is this possible?
The idea is to work on the catalog and existing photos while on vacation, and also add to the catalog more/new vacation photos. Then when back home I'd want to transfer everything back to the Mac.
https://www.quickppsr.com.au/
So far I have tried copying the mac drive with my photos and catalog onto a portable NTFS drive.
When I try to open that on the Win10 laptop, ... well I don't think it is really working ... but maybe it is still processing something in the background to make it slow?? (~60k+ photos)
So I am not sure what to do next.