Vanity Plates

What's the deal with Idaho drivers and vanity plates?  I've seen more personalized license plates here than I ever have in New Jersey.  That's really a bold claim, since I probably encountered more cars on the Turnpike on my thrice-weekly drive to New Brunswick than there are in the entire state of Idaho. 

Among the more notable vanity plates I've seen here are "ENERGY," "VERITAS," and my favorite, "GIN."  I also could have sworn I saw an SUV with plates proclaiming "BLUMPKIN," but a closer look revealed that I was sadly mistaken and it was either someone's abbreviated last name or gibberish with an obscure meaning.  However, the best vanity plate of all time, which wins the 'how did they get away with that at the DMV' award, was spotted in NJ.  Once I was driving through Princeton and pulled up at a red light next to a limo with tinted windows and NY tags that read "CA PORN."  Swear.  

While we're talking about license plates, I saw a car with Hawaii plates today!  Never have I ever seen a car with Hawaiian tags.  Hawaii ruins the license plate game on every car trip.  During the past year, I've driven across the country three times.  I've seen cars from every state and Canadian province, and a few cars from Mexico, but never Hawaii.  I can't even imagine what someone from Hawaii is doing in Idaho with their car.  It wasn't even a nice car, which defies logic, because who would pay to ship a beater like that across the Pacific Ocean?