First of all, Dracula can cross running water. We have to admit that's pretty canonical. It's in Bram Stoker's original book (and now adapted into a movie) that Dracula stowed away on the Demeter and basically played Among Us with the crew the whole way.
But maybe Dracula's just badass like that. Suppose you get turned into a not very powerful vampire, and you can't cross any amount of water anymore, not even if you're on a bridge. No lakes, no rivers, no creeks, and definitely no seas or oceans. Where can you get to as a vampire, and how do you get there?
There's going to be major limitations. If you're in New England, for example, you can't leave the area bounded by the ocean, the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River.
yeah I think I found the circuitous vampire-accessible route between Durham and Chapel Hill. The roads all cross creeks, so at a minimum, the trip requires you to cross these woods between two isolated neighborhoods.
But, note the path that appears to exist between them. Maybe the vampires are already doing this
