if at all possible.

while you are trying to learn on your own. it would be helpful if you could possibly travel (every now and then) to that school 60 miles away.

explain your situation and hopefully you can get some tuning in every now and then from that school.

at least this way you can learn some of the aspects, and principles that can be hard to transmit without direct physical contact.

just a thought

good luck with your studies.