Pea Does America
Pea's epic American adventure: NASA, Walmart, Tesla, Buc-ee's, Savannah, the Carolinas, Gatlinburg, Epcot, and more.
20 videos in this collection, spanning 2023 to 2025.
1. Pea Does America - The Oldest City
Pea drives to Saint Augustine, Florida — the oldest city in the United States — and spends five hours exploring its Spanish colonial architecture, pirate history, 17th-century fortress, and local shops.
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2. A Filipina Tours NASA - Pea Needs Her Space
Pea spends a full day at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, touring exhibits from the earliest rockets through the Space Shuttle program, witnessing a live SpaceX Falcon 9 launch carrying 22 Starlink satellites, and wrapping up with a budget shopping trip at Dollar Tree.
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3. A Filipina Tries Southern Cooking - Grits And Hush Puppies
Pea visits Cracker Barrel for the first time after viewers flooded her with suggestions to try Southern cuisine. She navigates the confusing store-restaurant hybrid entrance, orders the Grandma's Sampler with grits, and tastes her way through cornbread, hash browns, hush puppies, and her very first mimosa — all while bantering with her server...
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4. How To Get A Tourist Visa To The US - Tips and Tricks
Pea breaks down the entire process of how she obtained her US B1/B2 tourist visa as a single, self-employed Filipina — a demographic that faces extra scrutiny from consular officers.
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5. Pea Goes To Walmart - A Filipinas Heaven or Hell
Pea visits Walmart for the first time and walks aisle by aisle comparing American products, prices, and shopping culture to what's available in the Philippines.
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6. Pea Takes a Tesla For A Spin - The Amazing Self-Driving Model Y
A long-time Patron named Jaime brings his 2022 Tesla Model Y for Pea to test drive and explore. She goes from comically struggling with the keyless entry to flooring it on the highway, experiencing full self-driving mode, discovering the fart horn, and getting a full walkthrough of charging, storage, maintenance, and the economics of EV ownership...
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7. Whats Up With American Men Peas Day At The Beach
Pea hits Daytona Beach to interview American men about what it's like being a man in America, whether they feel appreciated by women, the state of relationships, and whether the US is a good place to live.
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8. A Filipina Tries Texas Barbeque at Buc-Ees
Pea pulls off the highway after viewers told her to check out Buc-ee's, expecting a gas station but finding something closer to a full-scale retail plaza. She tours the massive facility, tries her first Texas barbecue sandwich, and delivers a running commentary on the absurdity of what Americans consider a "convenience store."
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9. A Filipina In The Deep South - A Weird Day In Savannah
Pea spends a day in Savannah, Georgia exploring the city's unusual side: a candy store making its own sweets, a cat café that doubles as a foster home, a prohibition-era speakeasy, and a rage room where she smashes everything in sight.
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10. A Filipinas Epic Road Trip - Lost In The Carolinas
Pea spends a day in North Carolina exploring an apple orchard with quirky activities, trying authentic western North Carolina barbecue from a food truck, and learning to throw axes at a Hendersonville venue.
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11. Cool Things To Do In Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge - From A Filipina In America
Pea visits Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee, trying activities that range from the unique (zorbing — rolling downhill inside a giant water-filled ball) to the wonderfully weird (Ripley's Believe It or Not museum).
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12. A Wet N Wild Filipinas First Time At A Waterpark
In her final week in the United States, Pea visits Universal's Volcano Bay water park for her very first water park experience, then heads to a genuine Southern restaurant called Green Tomato Buffet to answer viewers who insisted Cracker Barrel wasn't real Southern food.
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13. Epcot Center - A Filipinas Farewell To America
In the final episode of Pea's America tour, she spends seven hours at Epcot, tackling rides that challenge her fear of enclosed spaces and heights, exploring the World Showcase's international food pavilions, and reflecting on her three months in the U.S.
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14. The Philippines Versus America - Where Would A Filipina Rather Live
After spending three months traveling through six states in the American South, Pea delivers a comprehensive first-person comparison of daily life in the U.S. versus the Philippines.
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15. A Filipina In America - Daytona Beach Bike Week 2025
Pea takes her camera to Daytona Beach Bike Week 2025, one of the largest motorcycle events in the U.S., drawing roughly 500,000 people. As a Filipina who grew up around scooters, she's stunned by the sheer scale of American motorcycle culture — the massive custom bikes, the wild outfits, the street performers, and the nightlife.
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16. A Filipina Discovers COSTCO
Pea visits the newly built largest Costco in the state of Florida, comparing everything she sees to Filipino life — prices, appliances, portion sizes, and the sheer excess of American consumer culture.
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17. Fishing With A Filipina The American Dream
Pea goes fishing for the first time with a rod and reel — her fisherman father only ever used sticks and nets — and uses the downtime between casts to deliver a thoughtful comparison of American versus Philippine life.
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18. Filipina Pea Goes Tubing - With An Alligator
Pea tries river tubing for the first time at Rainbow Springs in Florida, a two-hour float through alligator territory. What starts as a lighthearted adventure vlog takes a sharp philosophical turn when she launches into an extended meditation on why humans draw arbitrary lines about which creatures deserve compassion — and whether you'd eat a...
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19. American Jollibee Is Different - But Is It Worse
Pea visits a Jollibee location in Orlando to test whether the Philippines' most beloved fast food chain survives the translation to America. As someone who's eaten at Jollibee hundreds of times — and once worked there as a cashier and in the kitchen — she tastes her way through the menu item by item, compares each to the Philippine original, reads...
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20. Pea's Day Out - Filipina Versus The Car Wash
Pea documents two first-time American experiences during her U.S. vacation: watching a movie at the upscale Cobb luxury theater in Orlando and tackling a self-service car wash on her own. The vlog captures her genuine reactions to American convenience and automation while weaving in comparisons to how things work in the Philippines.
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