Fly high above Vermont's stunning fall foliage in a hot air balloon ride

See fall foliage like you've never seen it before - from the basket of a hot air balloon floating high over the skies of northern Vermont. NBC5's Jack Thurston recently got a chance to fly hundreds of feet through the air and take in peak foliage in Vermont from an angle few people get to see. The Oct. 5 flight featured yellows, oranges, browns, and some reds in the trees, but also plenty of green. Those colors appeared to become bright speckles when the balloon rose high enough above the ground that the individual trees were indistinct. "The colors were amazing," said Cheryl Simpson, a traveler from Northern California. Simpson and her husband, Matt, were on their first trip to New England to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. "I was terrified to go," Matt Simpson revealed. "I don't like to fly. And that was the most joyous experience I've had in a long, long time. I'll never forget it. Very peaceful." Another first-time visitor to Vermont, Shannon Minor, had seen fall foliage elsewhere—but not in the way she did Sunday. "Being from West Virginia, we get to see it quite a bit, but I've never seen it from the air," said Minor, who now lives in South Florida. "Just so breathtaking—beautiful."