Scribbles from the road after Day Four of Rick Scott’s six-day, statewide bus tour.

1. Let’s start with a detail about Scott’s jobs plan. After all, it is the reason the Republican gubernatorial candidate is hauling three family members, a dozen staffers and consultants, several news reporters, a van, an SUV and a bus with a giant picture of his head some 1,100 miles crisscrossing the state three times (see the map) in the middle of a scorching Florida summer.

2. Scott’s promise to create 700,000 jobs is in all of his campaign materials, from the wrapping on the bus, to the made-for-tv backdrops, to a glossy flyer that could be arriving in your mailbox any day.

But add up the numbers on that mailer and you’ll see it’s really 665,000 jobs. Ask the campaign for their consultant’s version of the plan and the actual number is 661,914 new jobs.

3. We asked about the discrepancy and Scott says he rounded up. His reason: It sounds better to say he has “seven steps for 700,000 jobs in seven years.”

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott is planning a statewide, week-long bus tour next week to roll out his economic plan, The Palm Beach Post has learned.

The tour is tentatively scheduled to start Wednesday and run through Monday. Exact stops are still being confirmed, but the plan is to start in South Florida and spend the next week traveling north.

The timing is interesting.

For one, Scott will have a tough time competing for the media spotlight as independent Gov. Charlie Crist’s four-day special session starts Tuesday.

But on the other hand, Scott will spend the week talking about the most important issue to Florida voters while the Tallahassee political establishment that Scott is essentially running against — and which is also stocked with Republicans supporting Scott’s primary rival, Bill McCollum — spends the week (and about $200,000 of taxpayer money) considering a constitutional amendment to ban oil drilling, which is already prohibited in state statutes.