About KayakQuixotica.com

quixotic \kwik-SOT-ik\, adjective:

1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds . . .
2. Capricious; impulsive; unpredictable. e·rot·i·ca \ĭ-rŏt’ĭ-kə\, pl.n.

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Literature or art intended to arouse desire. (in this case, to get on the water. . .)

KayakQuixotica.com (formerly KayakWisconsin.net) went online in 2003 when paddling websites and blogs were still a bit of a rarity.  These days KQ is part of large community of paddling related websites all over the world!  My goal with KQ is continue to bring new paddling information to the website, while providing informative and entertaining reading along the way.

Links – I am happy to link out to related websites of quality.  Links to KQ are certainly appreicated.  There are a variety of ways that content can be syndicated out to your website as well.  All I ask is that content is credited and a link back to KayakQuixotica is provided as well.

What’s with that name? I chose KayakWisconsin.net because it was, what the site was about “kayaking in Wisconsin”. These days my muse has taken over and the site wanders much further than the reaches of the Great Lakes. Kayak Quixotica was originally a title to a blog post, but it always stuck in my head. I hope it implies whimsical fantasies with just a touch of the sensuality I’ve always felt was part of kayaking and immersion in nature.

Money?? Sponsors are certainly welcome, however it’s not my focus.

Visitors - As a web developer in my “real” life I’m quite accustom to slicing and dicing web traffic. KQ has been online since 2004 and has over 1500 pages of content. Traffic comes into the site from a variety of places and lands everywhere within the site. This website uses 3 different sources to monitor traffic.  Apache logs, Cystats, & Google analytics. From those visitor numbers,  erroneous traffic such as ‘bots” etc., are subtracted. Once that is done an overview of the different reports is taken to produce a number that I’m confident with.  That said KayakQuixotica averages around 1200 visitors daily in the off-season and picks up nearly 1700 per day in the summer months.  The highest single day was over 2500 unique visitors.

What’s the point? Sorry? I’m not sure there is one, or has to be. Amuse the muse, share your gift, join the hack. . . whatever will be will be. . . Email: derrick@kayakquixotica.com