Sport pilot school

[TheLight75]

My plan is to do Sporty’s ground school then sit for the written a couple months before starting flight training. My bigger issue is that the closest SPL training is a good 2 hours away so the traditional training model doesn’t work for me.

If you can make it work, I'd do it. There used to be an outfit in FL that did a 2 week PPL. Sport seems much more reasonable. Get an online or computer test thing to bring yourself up to the current level of regulations, weather stuff, avionics, etc. Mostly, I would expect you'll be learning ground handling, landing, and maneuvers.