Word for annoying travel

Solution 1:

That's a schlep.

A tedious or difficult journey:

• a rush hour schlep to the airport and back

• And the Hamptons are fun to visit, but it's a schlepp to get out there and it's more than we want to spend.

• You'll find a half-dozen of the best dive sites a short boat ride away, which lets you avoid the tiresome schleps to and from the city.

• And we said well yes, but it's such a long schlepp.

Solution 2:

A slog refers to unpleasantly difficult or tiring travel.

From Merriam-Webster.com:

a long, difficult walk

and

a hard dogged march or journey

In one of Merriam-Webster's examples,

It was a long slog up the mountain.

This can have the connotation of difficult work vs. simple annoyance, but it can still be used in contexts in which the difficult work isn't strictly physical.

Solution 3:

Drag or drudge might be suitable words to include with an indication of movement; e.g. 'Travelling to work everyday on the London Underground can be a drudge.

Drudge is used in other circumstances than travelling, however. 'Washing-up the saucepans is a drudge'.

But as regards travelling drudge does have the advantage that it rhymes with trudge, which is a manner of walking wearily through, for example, snow or deep mud.