I'd say you started early!! Way to go.
I got a late start, in my late 40's. I was a muscle car, sports car type. I had never owned a truck and until that fateful evening in Feb '99, never even seen a Jeep close up. Came home that night with a '99 Wrangler TJ... been doing trails all over Arizona, Utah, Colorado and a few in California ever since. I guess you can say I've been making up for lost time.