This includes education or training you are required to attend. An activity does not become official state business merely because an agency permits you to do it, even if the agency pays your expenses. The state must direct and control the activity to be responsible for it. The state's business includes the direct travel required by state business. Direct Travel means travel by common, appropriate, or reasonably necessary means over a route that is the shortest, or a reasonable and ordinary, route to the destination required for the state's business.
Direct travel includes circuitous routes only as reasonably necessary to reach the destination.
Direct travel includes travel to sites near the direct route or destination for eating and lodging and other personal needs that must be met if state business is to be performed. Eating, lodging, and personal activities in which you engage are personal activities. Personal Activity includes all activities other than direct travel and the state's business. Personal activity includes all activities you undertake by personal choice for your own interest or benefit and not at the direction and control of the state. These remain personal activity even if the agency pays or reimburses costs, allows leave time, or otherwise has knowledge or gives permission.