Vagabond 8x10

I have a Springbar Vagabond, which is 8x10. Mine has the door centered, but most of that model are slightly off center. It fits 2 big cots nicely. Their next size up is 10x10 which might help with the cooler and dog. The springbar design has to be staked down, but the advantage is a very light frame (for a standing headroom canvas tent) with just 2 vertical poles.

I use an 8x10 Springbar tent for 2 guys on nice cots with standing headroom. You could easily sleep 4 or 5 in there on the floor. You aren't crazy. Having a decent amount of space and not having to crawl on your hands and knees turns tent camping into something downright comfortable.

The cheapest one that isn’t worthless is probably the C6 Rev Rooftop Tent X. C6 makes a platform for it, and the tent plus platform runs around 1,100. You’ll still need to find crossbars for your hardtop. I stopped looking for a roof top tend when I realized I could get a fabulous Springbar style tent from Kodiak that was much roomier and better built for like $800.

Yes, I have a Springbar Vagabond and it's a lifetime tent. However it's heavy and would only be good for car camping. Get the Springbar, get an air matress, a good rotomolded cooler, some good chairs, and a tote with all the camping stuff to keep inside. You can get all that stuff for around $1500-1700.

You won’t believe it but I picked up an unused Springbar Vagabond at a thrift store for $4. I hadn’t heard of them as I’m more into backpacking tents and that thing weighs a ton, but I could tell right away it was in perfect shape and really high quality. I assumed it was missing parts or had issues but took a chance. It not only had all the parts in unopened bags, it had an accessory heavy duty stake kit.

1. Hot/4-season Tent with portable woodstove - if you decide to go this route, I'd suggest getting a "kit"/combo tent-and-stove or at least something that is designed to go with a particular stove set up for ease of set up and safety. Keep in mind how the tent needs to be staked and set up. I camp at a few campgrounds that provide wooden decks for the tent platform. These have limited dimensions and you can't usually screw lag bolts or stakes into them to stake a canvas tent (a requirement for some styles).  These set ups tend to be very heavy and expensive. I have only winter camped in the snow in a Snowtrekker brand tent that seemed like it pretty much requires snow to be most effective with the set up (I'm not an expert). Try r/wintercamping for details about that. If looking at canvas (which is traditional) be sure to consider how humid it will be where you live and come up with a strategy /plan for how/where you will need to set it up when you get home to dry it out before packing it back away to avoid mold and mildew. I recently bought a factory second Springbar Vagabond. I love the romantic idea of it, though in reality it will get very little use as long as I'm living in an apartment in New England and have no garage, basement or yard to dry it out after a rainy camping trip, lol. 2. Steel Skewers/ Cast Iron Cookware. I use wood or bamboo skewers instead of steel, because I can burn them in the fire after use instead of having to clean them and store them. I use cast iron at home, but haven't yet while camping due to the heavy weight and hot handles. Instead I use some titanium backpacking pots for boiling or heating up pot things and a cheap pan I bought at Walmart for frying eggs or making pancakes or hash browns or other pan things.  Like someone else said, if you can afford to have dedicated camp kitchen stuff it is ideal so you aren't constantly having to remember to move items from the camp bin back to the kitchen and vice versa. I understand it might take some time or a few trips to figure out everything you need to fit out your camp kitchen though.  3. Cot - last year I got the Zempire W-leg stretcher V2 cot. Happy with it so far. I like that it's low enough that it also works in my lower profile tents. A little hard to set up at first, so practice, practice, practice at home to make sure you got it down.  4. Battery Powered Lighting - can't have too many backup lighting sources. I like to have a combination of things that are solar, battery, rechargeable, and even gas powered. Headlamps with a red light are great. Those Luci inflatable ones are good for larger areas/hanging over a picnic table. The smaller LED rechargeable Moji ones are good for inside the tent. Night Ize micro lanterns can be clipped around the sleeping areas as well for low light in bed. When big enough, kid can get a kid Coleman lantern. Fire Maple gas lanterns are pretty for flame lighting. 

I’ll add this, we used a 10x10 Coleman for years while car camping with two kids and felt it was plenty roomy. The same size Springbar feels much larger in comparison due to the straighter walls & high ceiling. You mention Burning Man and wind being a concern. I set this tent up in the yard for ten days to season. Completely dry through two rain storms, including one with 50mph gusts. I’m starting to believe the hype surrounding these tents.

Kodiak are great, i own two but they are knock off of springbar. springbar had been making the exact same tent kodiak ripped for almost 70 years.

Yeah springbar are tougher for sure the qc is on point. Kodiak is a great tent tho. Recent years qc is still ok just not as good from my understanding. Kodiak is like a Cadillac, but springbar is like a rolls...