Ian Dille

  • The Creature from Choke Canyon

    Wrap-up – The Brand New Texas Observer Rabble Rouser!   The 10th annual Rabble Rouser Round-Up and Fat Cat Schmoozefest shook the halls of [...] Full Story

  • Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

    Before the summer of 2009, Bob Wynne could stand on his expansive deck high above Lake Travis and look out over flat, shimmering water. [...] Full Story

  • Crimes In the Sand

    Most of the 300 or so clustered gravesites in the Terlingua Ghost Town cemetery are mounds of white rock rising from auburn dirt. Crosses [...] Full Story

  • Bike Pathology

    Dallas, with its knot of highways, sprawling suburbs, and fast urban streets, is not an easy place to bicycle. In 2008, Bicycling magazine declared [...] Full Story

  • If They Build It…

    With a kick from the muddy bank, our canoe slides into the Trinity River, a narrow strip of murky water canopied by looming black [...] Full Story