It took me 2 decades to find the right programs in Linux to get this done- ah ha ha ha!

Any hiccups song the way?

Bricklayer,
I am truly impressed.
You are my hero of the day.

I had similar plans in the eighties. Just the other way round. Never came true, though.
So I am intrigued to ask you:
It seems to me that you had your brick flown across the Atlantic. Was that a complicated task? Do you happen to remember how much they charged you?

The trip was  Newark-Frankfurt on a Lufthansa. program called "Fly and Ride". My round trip ticket and bike shipping was US$1,200 in 1998. The company which ran it was out of Florida and today I will keep searching for documents. Basically one had to go to air cargo terminal with less than a 1/4 tank of fuel and disconnect your battery ground. The bike was strapped to a pallet and loaded into the belly of a Boeing 747. A guess an Internet search is in order to see if such programs still exist. My insurance. Since my trip was around 4 months in Europe it saved on renting a Beemer. So if I take 4 months insurance ($200 total) and total flight costs, it was about $12/day to have my wheels there. I camped during the week and stayed with friends/hotels on weekends. All back during the pre-HTTP 'net and Usenet groups ruled the earth...

Upon arrival in Frankfurt one showed customs your insurance and off you went (to the nearest petrol station of course). I could go on and on about some of the interesting facts and stories but that is left for "beer o'clock" or specific questions. In closing it was a trip to find family roots in Poland after a century of separation and had a bunch of mini-disasters. The overall results is that it changed my life in many ways. Only real regret is that I did not keep a journal like on my 4-wheel camping adventures in Mexico/ Belize and notes I kept on Cambodia which have been published as eBooks- ah ha ha ha- is that a promo plug I smell?

OK here's pic of the K going into the plane and shipping docs, if I find more they'll end up here. 

"Any hiccups along the way?"

A few, worst was hitting a patch of diesel fuel on a turn north of Munich. Lots of mud, broken finger, and a new valve cover. Amazingly the new valve cover was only US$65 at the main dealer in Munich.

ATM's were down a lot (1998). My only logistical mistake was my initial insurance was 1 month and had to renew in Europe. The office was in Luxembourg so there was a detour along the way.

Being multi-lingual at any level helped, I got the "Canadian Price" at campgrounds in France during high season (August) and having a Polish surname definitely helped when dealing with any government official in Poland. :-)