Anyone ever gone overseas vacation and bought a bike to ride there and brought it home?

Ive been trying to plan a 2-3mo overseas trip to cycling and check out the area for moving to and thinking it would be a lot less stress for me to fly out with just my clothes and gear and buy a new bike there, ride the piss out of it and then buy a hard bike case and bring it back home with me. Anyone done this?



Nervous about flying in general, especially over seas and especially with an 8k$ bike. if i fly out there without one it would be a lot less stress only having to worry aobut the ride back, and worst case if something happens i dont be without a bike while im on vacation because they lost mine in the multiple lay overs....



thoughts?