It is easy to despair. We are all aware of the state of the world. In the context of tourism, there is much to be said about luxuries that the planet simply cannot afford; about the way things have always been done. And yet, at the edge of the world, in the remotest of untouched wilderness and the small, forgotten town nearest to it, an environmental and economic blood transfusion is happening in real time. What I witnessed did nothing less than transform me. This was hope as a verb.