If 45 minutes is too far to travel you can A) find your own open field, get permission from the property owner to fly there, then cut and groom your own runway, get insurance and start flying, or B) find something else to do, or C) put on your big boy pants take and the 45 min. ride to an existing field. Point is that model airplane flying sites are not always just up the street from where you may live and may require some inconvenience to get to. That's just how it is! Go figure.