I didn't read my first post.  I guess there were a couple things in there I was going to address. 

Terry and I visited Red Lantern Tours.  It is a great place if you would like to have them do everything.  Each day has it's own itinerary.  You're with a tour guide much of the time.  All Travel arrangements, transfers, hotel/dinner reservations are done for you....really.....you don't have to lift a finger.  If you can get yourself on an airline to SE Asia the rest is done for you. It's the no runs, no drips, no errors way to travel.  And Red Lantern knows SE Asia.  

There is an expense to all that.....at the same level of a decent cruise on, say, Windstar.  Besides the increased cost, I really wanted to chart our course.  My wife doesn't have a great desire to do much of the planning.  The research and planning is part of what I enjoy. 

Enough for now.