by Chechu and Waldo’s marriage went viral on social networks in a very short time, after rebuilding a van to travel throughout Argentina became their new great project and a carrot to pursue every day after their retirement. A skylight, a cladding, a light fixture. Spare part by spare part they are advancing in the reconstruction of the Sprinter 4-13 and five weeks ago they showed their followers all the details. His story crossed thousands of places and awakened love fans. However, the most surprised ended up being them. “We never intended to tell our story and now everyone wants to know about our love. Waldo always grumbles and says: ‘I want to talk about the truck.’”Chechu remarked about the project they decided to embark on, which today is followed by thousands.
The first destination is Buenos Aires and Patagonia; and then, they would continue through the rest of the country, when the truck is ready. This, which began as a two-person project, ended up on the cell phones of millions of people. “We were at lunch one weekend at my house. And with Waldo, last year, we did the Camino de Santiago. The company that made our hotel reservations interviewed us for their website. One of my daughters, looking at the page, said it was the video she has seen the most. My other daughter, who studies film, tells us ‘there is something that you give and like’. And they planned the first video you see on TikTok. So, actually, that was a test,” Chechu revealed.
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That first video achieved 2 million views on TikTok, and Chechu and Waldo’s page reached more than 65 thousand followers. “It is impressive the number of messages we have received from people who offer to give us a hand with the furniture, with the floor of the truck, with mechanics. “The people are very supportive,” she said. The first thing Waldo had commented, however, was “Who’s going to watch this? Who cares?”.
But you can’t talk about their post-retirement goal without talking about how they met. “It’s been a while, many years. I was her boss at a job, that’s how we started,” Waldo said in dialogue with The uncovering. To which she added: “Actually I was not the direct boss. He was the untouchable that was up there, to which no one could access. We never gave each other a ball at that time. “We were very young, the job was not permanent, and I was dating.”
However, time did its work and they met again. It was known that Waldo helped students from various universities in La Plata with their notes, and Chechu was one of them. A few years later, on the steps of the Cathedral, a classical music concert was held that brought them together in an unexpected way. “I saw him from a distance, he was sitting dressed all scruffy. I had always seen him in a jacket and tie. All night I didn’t stop thinking about him,” Chechu confessed.
And he added: “I told my friend ‘I have to talk to him’. I saw him coming from the side, I got close to him and I pretended to trip. I told him all this on a wedding anniversary.”. However, the night for them did not end there. A strong storm hit, and accompanied them on their entire trip back to their homes. “We lived very close to each other. So when we got to his apartment, he invited me out for coffee. I would never have gone up to a guy’s apartment without first meeting him. But there was something special, and it was a very nice night. “It was an improvised date, with a lot of magic,” she said.
Finally, after a few months of dating, they got married. “It scared me a little that after five months he asked me to marry him. I also came with another project: I had a scholarship in France, and I wanted to go live abroad. But I think both of our plans changed when we met,” Chechu admitted.
Since they got married, and even when they had their daughters, they decided to take the days they could to travel around Argentina. It was something they shared and the ideas came naturally. They had fallen in love and their currency was travel. “Once, already married, We had a Renault 6, balled up, which we used to take little trips every week.. We were going camping, to a stream. Then we changed cars, and went to other places. And the same with our daughters,” said Waldo.
As time went by, they became just the two of them again. When their daughters reached adolescence, they knew that they could not continue involving them in the trips they were planning. “We are very free with our daughters. When we saw that it was already a commitment, we freed them from that issue. Clearly if they wanted to travel with us, they would travel. And if they didn’t make their trips alone, especially the youngest ones,” she said.
“I don’t understand why we”
However, this traveling family of four never imagined that the day would come when their story would be known. The couple took one of their favorite activities and created their new goal: once they both retired, they would build a van and use it to travel. “Our daughters accompany us, encouraging us to continue, and technologically. Our daughter’s friends also help. They are community managers, and they give us a hand in everything that involves reviewing the messages, when the two of us can handle ourselves,” said Waldo. And he added: “We had to learn how to use TikTok, how Instagram worked, respond to messages, upload videos. I don’t have patience, I’m from another generation. That’s why the topic of going viral makes me laugh.”
“I don’t understand why us, and it leads me to wonder about what people need or look for and consume,” Waldo reflected. For his part, Chechu said: “I took it as a fun question of communicating something through the networks. It’s not my way, but I have fun and I take it as a game, and that can entertain other people too.”
This path has just begun and they are very aware of that, although they do not stop enjoying the process. “This is going to be a long process, only in October, if I can, I present the retirement papers. Notice that the truck is just now in the shop. Then we have to put together a lot of things,” Chechu commented. To which Waldo agreed: “It is a process that you have to carry out with pleasure and not out of obligation. If it becomes a job, it’s over. I’m already retired. I don’t want any job. “I want to do things that give me pleasure.”
From the moment they met until they started their own family, Chechu and Waldo worked as a team. “We are life partners. We are not mimicked. He has his friends and his outings, and I have mine. But we know that we are there for each other. We are individuals together,” Chechu reflected.
For his part, Waldo added: “One must always keep in mind that we are living beings. We are born and we are going to die, and, in that time, there is so much to do in life. Therefore, you have to constantly try and make mistakes. It has nothing to do with age. To the extent that you want to learn, you will always be young at heart.” Their friends, their daughters, and the entire social media community accompanies them on this new journey, full of romance and adventure. This is the odyssey of two strangers who will travel through Argentina, but reached all parts of the world.
