DMarkM1
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You just need miles between your home office and the destination. One way to do this is to look up the distance from home office to the client location and use that mileage.  That way you just don't count the detour (personal miles).  A log page can look like:

 

Date         Departure         Destination        Business Miles          Business reason

 

If you leave one client and go to another, do the same, look up the distance.  This way it really doesn't matter what you do in between.  When figuring business miles at year end, you just need the beginning and ending mileage from the odometer and the total business miles column from the log.             

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