It has been a bust last couple weeks for me as being an Idaho resident.
I had to get a new driver’s license. I had to take a written test! And when I got there I found out I also had to take the motorcycle test written test as well. That was unexpected. I had taken a number of sample tests online prior for the regular test since I hadn’t taken a drivers test since I was 15 years old. Thankfully I passed without any trouble. There were certainly a few questions I wasn’t prepared for, but you could skip questions and you only had to get 34/40 right (and 21/25 for the motorcycle). Now I have my piece of paper and my actual license should show up sometime in the next few weeks. “B” also took her test and passed.
Once I get my actual license I will work on getting the cars registered in Idaho. I have to to them one at a time since I have to take each into an office to have the vehicles looked at. Then I have to surrender my AZ title so they can create Idaho titles – that is a little scary to me, but I guess it is what is done. This is all new to me. Then once that is done I can get the insurance side of things figured out. I was told to wait until they were registered in Idaho before moving insurance.
The next thing I just finished doing we registering to vote. Another thing I haven’t done in a LONG time. In Idaho you don’t do that with your driver’s license like you can in AZ, it is a whole separate thing. But thankfully it is something that can be done online. I did that. And the BIG part of that was that I registered as unaffiliated. I was hoping there would be independent as a choice but in Idaho you don’t get that choice so I chose unaffiliated. I have been a Republican my entire life and I still lean that way overall, but the Republican party has gotten too crazy/hateful/weird for me the last 8 years or more and so I figured now was my chance to make a new start. I am not sure what that means overall in Idaho. I don’t know if/when I get to vote except for the main elections, and while I don’t like that in so ways, I do like that in other ways.
I think this is a good thing. Changes are being made. I have an Idaho ID (well in paper form at least). I have declared myself independent politically (but still slightly right leaning from center I think).
It was nice moving to Indiana where I didn’t have to declare a party (technically I could strategically choose which primary to vote in each year, although politicians get dinged if they switch primaries ….)
It sounds like the written test experience was better than ours (a bit more flexible, especially when questions about minutia about when one can get a permit pop up, something I really didn’t focus on in my late 20s ….)