Rulle Ranger — Our new Hero Camper

For the past two years we, meaning all five of us, have taken a two-week road trip in the summer. Driving around our beautiful country that is Norway 🙂

First year we rented Airbnb’s — comfortable, but expensive and required a lot of planning. Then we tried tenting — cheaper, more flexible but took a lot of time to make camp.

So we bought a teardrop camper, or more precisely, a Hero Camper Ranger edition. We named it Rulle (Norwegian for Rolly) Ranger.

How it started

It really started in 2024, I guess — with a two-week road trip from Eastern Norway, to Kristiansand, Haugesund, Stavanger, Bergen, the Hardangerfjord, over the Hardanger mountains, Geilo and home.

A fantastic experience that we absolutely wanted to repeat. All the overnight stays were planned and booked on Airbnb before we left, quite expensive, and very inflexible…

We wanted more of the same kind of vacation, but with more flexibility and preferably a bit cheaper 🙂 So the following year it was two weeks in a tent. We bought a great 5-person tent, and borrowed a small tunnel tent.

We hit the road again — this time with few plans, but a fully packed car, and a roof box. Mjøsa, Røros, Trondheim, Kristiansund, Molde, Ålesund, Geiranger, Skjåk and home.

Once again we had a fantastic trip — eventful, beautiful places, and nice people. We liked the camping life, but preferred being on the move rather than staying in one place for a long time.

Camp by a fjord on the west side of Norway

Five people, a full car and roof box, two tents… There was a lot of setting up — and tearing down. The kids preferred to explore when we arrived at new places, not spend a couple of hours getting settled.

We felt we needed something simpler; faster. It was with a certain envy that we watched RVs and trailers arrive, park, set out their camping chairs, and then they were done…

Towards the end of the vacation, us adults sat in the tent vestibule with wine in our glasses and phones in hand, looking for a simpler alternative — we didn’t want an RV, but neither did we want a large and heavy trailer.

The Hero Camper

We found Hero Camper, and pretty much decided right then and there that this might be something for us. The day after we got home we hit the road again, this time to Magnor to look at a Hero Camper 🙂

A month and a half later we picked up Rulle 😀

With a rooftop tent on the car and a rooftop tent on the trailer, we have three bedrooms with sleeping space for six.

The camper has a kitchen with a sink, fridge, and cooktop. A privacy tent can serve as a changing room, shower, or toilet (toilet not included 😛). An awning with panels turns into a tent. How this will work in practice we don’t quite know yet, we’re pretty new Hero Campers 🙂