Of course, as the third example in my list above reminds us, there is usually more than one way to do something. We normally assume that there is one best way through the woods in the process of searching and evaluating. We try to pick the best one rather than merely settling for getting there eventually. Now for some interesting differences between dao and 'way'. Chinese language lacks pluralization, i.e., not simply has no plurals, but has no grammatical role for plurals.
Nouns refer in a collective way.
Dao has a semantic part-whole structure, like an expanse. What we think of as one way would be one part or component of dao . It seems barely visible-like a bit of grammatical filler. Dao , by contrast, was the center of Chinese philosophical discussion. This invites the tendency to identify dao with being-since the latter was similarly the core concern of classical Western thought.