Give it a try. Personally, I think you will eventually stop using headphones on the trail. I have spent hundreds of hours in GA aircraft under Clark headphones, and I have tried the Bose NC-style as well. These work fine in an aircraft, but flying in a small plane is not comparable to driving a small vehicle in the bush. I have never used headphones in an aircraft to hear conversation (although obviously they make conversation possible if you have an intercom), but only to lower the abusive noise level of the aircraft cabin which can, over time, degrade your hearing. Headphones are not comfortable. One wears them to prevent deafness, not because they are convenient.
If tunes are all that important and you just can't function for 5 minutes at a time without them, get a pocket MP3 player. Otherwise, if simply communicating with your partner is what you are after and the cabin noise is so high you can't hold a conversation at trail speeds, change your exhaust system.
If you are referring to highway noise, then consider this: if you wear headphones to hear either music or conversation in the cabin, you can't hear anything going on outside your vehicle either. This includes emergency vehicles and other traffic. In most states, headphones are not legal for use on the road by the driver for this reason. Noise canceling headphones work only on constant state noise. Having tried mine is a car, I find they don't work very well in that environment because the noise source and levels fluctuate too much.