New Zealand travel through my TV.

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I love New Zealand. I have loved the very idea of New Zealand for almost 40 years now. It started with a movie.

The movie was called Utu. It means “revenge” in Maori. I saw the movie in 1983. It was then I fell in love with New Zealand. I saw it with a friend, Sunu, who was from Samoa. After he saw how I absolutely loved the movie — and the wild, untamed land of lush vegetation, he said, “You are going to…