Trip Planning

Those of you who know me well know, and maybe even if you don't know now that well, you're aware that I'm a planner.  I have 10 year plans, I always have, and yes occasionally I adjust them.  But that being said I always know what I'm doing.  I have financial goals, and educational and career goals, I know that in roughly 6 to 7 years I'm going to buy my first piece of property, I know when I want to take my AQ courses for the next 10 years, and all these other ridiculous things.  The kind of things that make some peoples' heads hurt, but for me it adds a sense of comfort to plan my life.  So it would naturally stand to reason that I would approach planning vacations with the same level of detail that I schedule the rest of my life. But I don't, I hate it, I hate it with a passion.

So in 10 days I leave to go on vacation to Loas and Cambodia with the Gym teacher here.  On the plus side we have booked our flight, on the downside we have booked nothing else.  We have have no clue where we want to go, what there is to do, where we need to go to do these things.

There are a couple issues:
#1
I have a list of things that I want to see and do before I die, most people have it. Its my travel bucket     list. Its filled with all these amazing art, architecture, natural wonders, and general cool stuff. Problem out of a very long list there is only 3 things located in Asia. So this is why it shocked a lot of family members when I announced that I was moving to the Philippines. So this really decreases my motivation to plan things. If someone where to tell me that we were going to Italy I would immediately hand them a extensive list of place I wanted to visit and see.  So when I said yes to going to Loas there was no list handed over of things I wanted to do.

#2
The other teacher and I choose each other to travel with because we're both fairly laid back and low stress type people. We both go with the flow. Which is great when your dealing with crazy third world stuff where nothing seems to go properly and there are weird bugs everywhere. The problem is that we never checked to see if either of us are planners, which mean that we have kinda been waiting for the other person to figure out what is going on.

#3
Lonely planet books have no where near enough pictures to make it accessible to art teacher and people with low planning motivation.

#4
Everything that I google search seems to be in the opposite direction that we need to be traveling in.

So essentially I'm just getting annoyed with this whole process. And I'm sure my brother would just tell me it doesn't matter and just go with it. But I feel like you at least need to know where the cool stuff to see is and what areas to avoid so you don't end up in a place full of unexploded land mines. So I have 10 days to figure out my 10 day long trip. Hopefully I don't kill someone in the process of having to try and figure this out.