Time to say goodbye

Well, our time in Barbados is drawing to a close. Today is our last full day. It's been challenging on some fronts and rewarding on some fronts. Would we come back? YES! Would we change some things about the island visit? YES! It seems that, try as they may, the tourism bureau has not made navigating the island very easy without a car. Yes, the buses do come often, but they are often standing room only, the bus drivers seeming to ignore the posted sign for how many people should be onboard. Signs to get places are often non-existent to confusing.People giving directions from information areas such as the bus station don't give it in enough detail to be of any use. Several times, after asking someone to repeat what they had just said, I was told just go to number 12 and ask the driver, or just ask someone when you get off the bus where to go. This might seem like good information to the person who lives here, but to a stranger, it is just not comforting.
It's expensive here for an American. Canadians and the British get a higher exchange rate than do Amercians, which could be why we are the only ones who think that food is expensive.
They don't grow enough food here. We heard several reasons for this, from "the people are too lazy"," we don't have enough time"  to "the salt gets on the leaves and kills the plants." Whatever the reason, this should be remedied. We expected, at the very least, to be able to buy local tomatoes, pineapples and oranges at a reasonable price. Instead, whatever was available was blemished and expensive.
The people are priceless. Almost everyone that we met was welcoming and friendly. We felt mostly safe here, the exception being when we were approached by drug addicts trying to get money from us in Bridgetown and at the beach in Worthing.
It's a great destination for getting close to the sun and experiencing summer every day. As the country develops more and the locals begin to grow and make more things that are actually Barbadian, we think it can't be anything but a stellar place to vacation.