IMHO, Joe speaks sense - do not underestimate how much the distance you travel to your aerodrome and the time it takes will effect your training progress:
1-Time spent driving is time wasted when you could be flying.
2-You dont want to be tired or wound up by driving before you fly.
3-Often the weather can be significantly different where you live to the aerodrome if it is further away.
4-The weather can change such that by the time you get there it has changed from when you called them if the aerodrome is either far away or takes ages to get to.
Im lucky now, my current aeroclub is a 5 minute drive away, but I have been in a situation where I had to drive quite a long way to an aerodrome to do aerobatics.
I noticed my performance was worse when I was tired, and you dont know how irritating it is to leave blue sky at home and see the weather deteriorate as you get closer to the aerodrome...
regards, SD..
Its generally best to make a hole in the sky.......not the ground...