We took our oldest on her first overland trip when she was four. I’m not going to tell you it went smoothly. It went the way most things go when you add a four-year-old to a situation that wasn’t optimized for four-year-olds. We learned a lot that weekend, mostly through failure. Five years later, three kids, somewhere between forty and fifty overnight trips together — here’s what I actually know. Age-Appropriate Expectations Are Everything A four-year-old can do two hours of trail driving befor