His name is George Mazzei, with 84 years of life behind him to cherish and look back on. But, for him, there is still so much to see — as I spoke with George, I could hear his passion for life through the way he spoke.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. But his heart resides and always will reside in Italy. The conquest of the Italian language is, according to him, a “continuous procedure.” But, every mission has a starting point, and Mazzei’s took place in the early 2000s.