An 86-year-old man living out of a travel trailer had his home on wheels stolen Friday and is asking for the public’s help in finding it.

Bill Laubach said he parked his 1966 Aloha trailer that afternoon in the Walgreens parking lot on Northeast Andresen Road and Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver. He went across the street to McDonald’s, and when he walked back outside at about 2:30 p.m., he saw a white man, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, hook the trailer up to a Chevrolet pickup and drive away.

“I started running, I just couldn’t run fast enough,” Laubach said. All of his belongings were inside.

Laubach lives in the trailer year-round, taking it to Arizona in the colder months and back to Washington in the summer. The trailer has a personalized Arizona license plate with the letters “MIHOME.”

While the trailer thief worked to swipe Laubach’s home, Laubach said he was sitting in McDonald’s, writing messages to friends on the backside of photographs he had taken of the trailer. He had planned to send the photos and some highlights of his travels in the mail to his friends.