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My characters have been traveling for the past thirty-plus pages, and even I'm bored with it.
They do the same thing day in and day out, mostly complaining or thinking for half the page.
I would feel cheap if I played the whole "One month later..." card.
Question: How can one make uneventful traveling interesting?

I had that same problem, where my characters were on a 13 hour plane ride, and it was really long, but I didn't want to skip it, because about 1% of it was important. What I did was I had the two characters talk for awhile and then my main character drifted off to sleep. I don't know how long your characters are traveling for, this would probably only work for a couple hours' of travel.

Like, a month, ha.

Yeah, I have the exact same problem. For around a month they are traveling, non stop! (well yes they do stop some times, but you get the point!) So I have used the summary and only done the really important scenes.

The thing is, they have to travel for a month or this one character will never have to be forced to reveal something to the other...

But it's annoying because all they do right now is walk around and bitch, sleep, walk, bitch... I'm starting to summarize it up though

You can always make travel more interesting by adding in more eventful scenes in travel, make the trips exciting or grow your characters more through dialouge and conversation. If you have anythiing in your story that requires a lot of explaining than have a character explain it while travelling.

the the uneventful travel portion of you story isn'r working because...well... it's uneventful.

strange and relevent happenings taking place over the travels is a good way to develop character and add new spark to the enviroment through which they are traveling. ( crazy stuff can happen, even on a plane ride)

otherwise you can just pop up a "lil' sumthin' sumthin'" summary.