Thank you all for your replies. This is what I've done.
I made a call to Missouri, have a sister and brother-in-law there. I gave him all my info and he bought a card and added it to my phone/account. Now the weird part; I logged into my account and it let me update my phone. The new minutes show on a phone that has no service here, very strange.
So the plan is to come back with enough cards to keep the phone active, like ''bumpy'' I'll end up with more minutes then I can ever use.
Maybe I can donate them to charity?
Best of the New Year!