Booking Flights and Buying Travel Guides

It's now confirmed: my next travel adventure will be the Grand Canyon (and the desert Southwest in general) in mid April. The flights were booked and paid for yesterday and the next step will be visiting Barnes and Noble to pick up the appropriate travel guides (tonight's project, possibly). The selection of the right travel guide will be critical as we'll be arriving in Las Vegas and from there will travel by rental car to the Grand Canyon or wherever we opt to go. We've have five days out there...which is plenty of time to accomplish all the sightseeing we want to do. So it could be said that we'll hop in the rental car and follow the road south...to whatever end. :-)