Asunción: Cold Starve Works, But Wow it Sucks

by The Beave · Published March 28, 2014 · Updated November 30, 2016

Paraguayan tereeré . Anyone who is anyone has their own thermos of cold water and their own cow hurn cup to drink terere out of all day. If you do not have there, and you do not carry these down the street with you where ever you walk, you are probably not Paraguayan. Villarrica, Paraguay
So, these guys stand here motionless all day long in the exact same positions. I was hoping that they did not like each other and they could have stare-downs and evil-eye offs, but I could not feel the tension when I walked between them. Shame really... Plaza de los Heroes Asunción, Paraguay.
Asunción, Paraguay. 28 March 2014
You can buy individual cigarettes from newspaper vendors. I have never seen that before. Asunción, Paraguay.
Asunción, Paraguay.
After we talked a doorman and a desk clerk into taking us to the top floor of a hotel to see the city sights. Asunción, Paraguay.
Asunción, Paraguay.
Hotel Doorman. Cool Jacket.
The buildings and colors here are sometimes so cool. Asunción, Paraguay.
The best fake Jesuit Ruins of the day. We just could not be bothered, but this picture of a picture turned out divine. Asunción, Paraguay.
I appreciate that effort. Asunción, Paraguay.
And then the contrast is so ugly. Asunción, Paraguay.
Kaw-Lija?

Asunción: Cold Starve Works, But Wow it Sucks.
March 28.
When you do not drink liquid or eat food for 30 hours it really does terrible things to you. I could not sleep very well at all. I had been tossing and turning and I am sure everyone in the dorm stayed awake because of my mental battle to kill a cold with a Cold Starve. I was so thirsty, and my stomach ached. I actually peed in the middle of the night, and I am not sure where I had been storing that liquid. Finally at 6am, it had been 30 hours since I had taken in any food or liquid for the Cold Starve, aside from the shot of Jim Bean, so I got up to hit the water. I think the lines in my face were actually clearer from to dehydration. When I got the bottle of water, I drank about one litre in one go to replenish the resources. Water was awesome… I went back to bed to sleep a little more while my body re-hydrated and so that I would hopefully feel better when I got up. I slept soundly for another couple of hours.

I killed it. I starved a cold. I was dried up when I woke up and my sneezing was gone. One can really kill a cold though starvation. A Cold Starve sure is terrible to do though.

It was a slow day, but Irmante and I went out to eat well, as food was a real treat for me.
Irmante – “Oh that restaurant has those German things, what are they called?”
Beaver – “Bratwurst?”
Irmante – “No.”
Beaver – “Gas chambers?”
Irmante – “No.”

We bought bus tickets to Montevideo, Uruguay for tomorrow. $140 for the ticket for a 23 hour bus! F! We need to get out of Paraguay. We need excitement in our lives. It was about 42 degrees in Asunción during the heat of the day today, scorching us. I like the heat and I can handle it, but this was uncomfortable to be in the hot city today.

We talked a hotel doorman into taking us to the top floor to overlook the city, and we came back to the hostel to relax and hide from the sun. I have drunk a lot lot of water today, but I was still peeing very yellow from that little dehydration trick, even at 9pm. Rockero, the rock bar in town that was playing 1990’s videos and it was a blast, but female DJ’s play a ton of women rock.

: Paraguayan tereeré . Anyone who is anyone has their own thermos of cold water and their own cow hurn cup to drink terere out of all day. If you do not have there, and you do not carry these down the street with you where ever you walk, you are probably not Paraguayan. Villarrica, Paraguay

: So, these guys stand here motionless all day long in the exact same positions. I was hoping that they did not like each other and they could have stare-downs and evil-eye offs, but I could not feel the tension when I walked between them. Shame really… Plaza de los Heroes Asunción, Paraguay.