Oops. Might have misread. I thought you had to consider the distance from where it finishes to the port of origin (if different) as part of the 35k mileage and as another segment, but you could just think of it as a surface segment at the end of the award.
What I do know is that the end point of a surface segment is not counted as 1 of your 5 stopovers - see my post above.